# Input values inside of elements that repeat - bug?

**URL:** <https://community.weweb.io/t/input-values-inside-of-elements-that-repeat-bug/16337>\
**Category:** How do I?\
**Tags:** design\
**Created:** [February 7, 2025, 12:09pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/input-values-inside-of-elements-that-repeat-bug/16337 "2025-02-07T12:09:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![garcilaso](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/garcilaso/32/11683_2.png) [@garcilaso](https://community.weweb.io/u/garcilaso)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 12:09pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/input-values-inside-of-elements-that-repeat-bug/16337/1 "2025-02-07T12:09:54Z")

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I have the following situation: I have an inbox in which I’m showing items and I want users to be able to add comments to those items.

To do that, I have a Rows element that creates as many rows as items should be displayed.

Inside the repeating row, I have created a Form Container. And inside the Form Container, I have a “long text” input. At the end, I have as many Forms and as many long text inputs as items there are in the inbox.

The problem here is that when I try to execute the Form Container, I can’t bind the text input. Actually I’ve tried with other input types and it doesn’t work either. The input just doesn’t show under the list of variables. If I use the debugger mode, it doesn’t update any variable either.

Is this a bug? Because even if I try to store whatever I write in a different variable, I can’t do it since the element doesn’t appear in the variable list.

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Broberto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/broberto/32/5918_2.png) [@Broberto](https://community.weweb.io/u/Broberto)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/input-values-inside-of-elements-that-repeat-bug/16337/2 "2025-02-07T21:20:00Z")

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You need to use the “On changed” actions on your inputs to save their values to a variable. You have to do this manually and yourself, because WeWeb “loses the state” once you repeat any input within a repeating group.

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**Author:** ![garcilaso](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/garcilaso/32/11683_2.png) [@garcilaso](https://community.weweb.io/u/garcilaso)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 10:06am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/input-values-inside-of-elements-that-repeat-bug/16337/3 "2025-02-10T10:06:01Z")

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Thank you for your help @Broberto 🙂