I would think it is because the htmlText is a property of a field. It is one of 
the properties that it inherited by any field.  The variable does not have this 
property.

Best regards
Tore Nilsen

> 18. mai 2022 kl. 18:23 skrev Rick Harrison via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> This works:
> 
> set the HTMLText of field "HTMLTextField1" of this card to URL VarURL
> 
> 
> This doesn’t work:
> 
> set the HTMLText of VarHTMLText to URL VarURL
> 
> (The syntax is accepted fine, but it throws the following error at execution 
> time.)
> 
> Chunk: error in object expression
> 
> 
> 
> This works:
> 
> get the effective HTMLText of field "HTMLTextField1" of this card
> 
> 
> This doesn’t work:
> 
> get the effective HTMLText of VarHTMLText2
> 
> (The syntax is accepted fine, but it throws the following error at execution 
> time.)
> 
> Chunk: error in object expression
> 
> 
> Why?
> 
> Thanks for your insight in advance!
> 
> Rick
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