# Arg, Stupid scroll bars aren't working!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/arg-stupid-scroll-bars-arent-working/18019
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 12, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/arg-stupid-scroll-bars-arent-working/18019 "2003-04-12T04:20:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@GW02](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/GW02)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/arg-stupid-scroll-bars-arent-working/18019/1 "2003-04-12T04:20:48Z")
I am in Flash MX, trying to get some scroll bars to work on a Dynamic Text field.
It has HTML rendering, I have selected Multiline, etc., I think I am doing everything right according to the instructions somewhere on this site.
There is one difference; I am using an external text file to load the text into the Text field… would that be what’s causing the problems?
The scrollbar just sorta sits there, disabled, looking forlorn.
PS. After doing a search I found the thread about the "&"s, and no, I did not use any of those.
PLEASE HELP!!!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/arg-stupid-scroll-bars-arent-working/18019/2 "2003-04-12T04:38:35Z")
Well it isn’t because you are loading from an external .txt file… after all, Kirupa does have a tutorial on that 😉
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dynamic\_scroller.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/dynamic_scroller.htm)
Are you sure you are dragging the scrollbar component out of the components panel and snapping it directly to the textbox?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/arg-stupid-scroll-bars-arent-working/18019/3 "2003-04-12T04:44:25Z")
Augh, I didn’t see that tutorial!!! I feel so stupid now!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/arg-stupid-scroll-bars-arent-working/18019/4 "2003-04-12T17:28:51Z")
Okay, now I have the problem that my HTML code isn’t showing up anymore.
Anything I can do to work around this?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/arg-stupid-scroll-bars-arent-working/18019/5 "2003-04-12T17:58:40Z")
I’m now desperately crying for help!!!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/arg-stupid-scroll-bars-arent-working/18019/6 "2003-04-12T20:45:01Z")
scroller.text = this.kirupatext;
Should be…
scroller.html = true;
scroller.htmlText = this.kirupatext;