# Button in a TextArea?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-in-a-textarea/264851>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 1, 2008, 8:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-in-a-textarea/264851 "2008-07-01T08:10:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Bombdogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@Bombdogs](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Bombdogs)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 8:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-in-a-textarea/264851/1 "2008-07-01T08:10:38Z")

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Hi all,

Is it possible to put a button or interactive text that can listen for mouse events in a scrollable text area?

Thanks,

PMF

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**Author:** ![pensamente](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/pensamente/32/1208_2.png) [@pensamente](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pensamente)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 9:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-in-a-textarea/264851/2 "2008-07-01T09:08:57Z")

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use htmlText

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**Author:** ![Bombdogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@Bombdogs](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Bombdogs)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-in-a-textarea/264851/3 "2008-07-01T09:42:54Z")

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Thanks for the reply - please forgive me if this is a silly question, but does using htmlText just allow for a link to be clickable? I don’t know how you can attach an eventListener to the link & make flash react to the click rather than the html page.

PMF

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**Author:** ![pensamente](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/pensamente/32/1208_2.png) [@pensamente](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pensamente)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 9:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-in-a-textarea/264851/4 "2008-07-01T09:59:18Z")

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there is a listtener for that, search in the help of flash for “TextEvent.LINK” there you will find a example that should help you out. Mainly the it goes like this:

myTextField.addEventListener(TextEvent.LINK, linkHandler);

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**Author:** ![Bombdogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@Bombdogs](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Bombdogs)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 10:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-in-a-textarea/264851/5 "2008-07-01T10:03:30Z")

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Just what the doctor ordered - thankyou very much!

PMF

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**Author:** ![pensamente](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/pensamente/32/1208_2.png) [@pensamente](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pensamente)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-in-a-textarea/264851/6 "2008-07-01T10:15:53Z")

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welcome 🙂  
glad to know that you found a way out 😉

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**Author:** ![abrarshf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a698b9/32.png) [@abrarshf](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/abrarshf)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2008, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-in-a-textarea/264851/7 "2008-07-01T11:28:45Z")

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use the html text in scroll area.