# Editable text box won't return input online
**URL:** https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/editable-text-box-wont-return-input-online/16975
**Category:** Online experiments
**Created:** [October 4, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/editable-text-box-wont-return-input-online/16975 "2020-10-04T14:18:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Noam\_Weinbach](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/Noam_Weinbach)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/editable-text-box-wont-return-input-online/16975/1 "2020-10-04T14:18:57Z")
URL of experiment: [https://pavlovia.org/Weinbach/text\_box999](https://pavlovia.org/Weinbach/text_box999)
Description of the problem: I wanted to have an editable text box that allows participants to enter a number and this number is stored. While this works offline in psychopy 2020.2.4, when I upload the experiment online to pavlovia, the editable text is not stored in the data file.
Anyone knows what may be the problem?
Thanks,
Noam
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### Author:  [@sawal](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/sawal)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/editable-text-box-wont-return-input-online/16975/2 "2020-10-04T16:00:11Z")
Hi @Noam_Weinbach, this is a known bug in v2020.2.4 (hopefully fixed in 2020.2.5!).
The current work around is to put this line in End Routine of a code component:
```auto
psychoJS.experiment.addData('myTextBox_txt', myTextBox._pixi.text);
```
where ‘myTextBox\_txt’ is the name you want for the textbox output variable, and ‘myTextBox’ is the name of your textBox.
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### Author:  [@Noam\_Weinbach](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/Noam_Weinbach)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2020, 7:57pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/editable-text-box-wont-return-input-online/16975/3 "2020-10-04T19:57:35Z")
Hi sawal,
Thanks so much for your answer. However, after implementing the code, I don’t see the new variable for some reason.
My text box is named “Text\_Number” and this is what I did in the bulider:
I uploaded to Pavlovia and made sure the js file was updated:
However, in the data file, I still don’t see the output\_number variable
Any suggestions?
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### Author:  [@sawal](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/sawal)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/editable-text-box-wont-return-input-online/16975/4 "2020-10-04T20:16:22Z")
Try clearing your browser cache & then running again— sometimes even though js changes show up in gitlab, Pavlovia still doesn’t recognize them
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### Author:  [@Noam\_Weinbach](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/Noam_Weinbach)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/editable-text-box-wont-return-input-online/16975/5 "2020-10-04T20:53:54Z")
Thanks a lot @sawal, that solved it! I would also add for anyone else who tries to do something similar that it is important to add myTextBox.\_pixi.text = ‘’ after the code you mentioned in end of routine if you want the text to clear from trial to trial.
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### Author:  [@sawal](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/sawal)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/editable-text-box-wont-return-input-online/16975/6 "2020-10-04T21:13:07Z")
Happy to help @Noam_Weinbach, cheers!
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### Author:  [@Hasademi](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/Hasademi)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/editable-text-box-wont-return-input-online/16975/7 "2020-10-29T17:33:02Z")
the runner keeps telling me "NameError: name ‘psychoJS’ is not defined
do I have to put something specific in the psychoJS part?
edit: in the coder I am using both, and when I only used the right side it worked and the text is being saved. Thank you. I don’t know why I didn’t see this post earlier until you shared it on my post.