# A href link in dynamic text box

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-href-link-in-dynamic-text-box/212925>\
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**Created:** [January 15, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-href-link-in-dynamic-text-box/212925 "2007-01-15T20:15:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Iron\_Bridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Iron\_Bridge](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Iron_Bridge)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-href-link-in-dynamic-text-box/212925/1 "2007-01-15T20:15:25Z")

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I think this is a relatively easy fix but I have looked around for the answer and have not been able to find it. I am using a dynamic scrollable html text box. I would like to add links. The only problem is that the double forward slashes (//) in [http://www.whatever.com](http://www.whatever.com) makes the following text become a commment.

I have a dynamic text box with an instance name of myText and in my AS layer I have:

```auto
myText.htmlText ="the text for this scrollable text box,
 which is html formatted";

```

If I try to add a html link, obviously it doesn’t work. Any suggestions?

The only workaround that I know of uses exteral .txt files. I would prefer to use those since I have not been able to get my scrolling bar with tweening to load properly with external .txt files. I have posted before for help for that problem but nobody ever responded. Hopefully there is an easy fix for this. It would help me out a lot. Thanks for taking the time to view