**Author:**  [@sideffect8](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sideffect8)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-html-controls-flash-timeline/57164/1 "2004-07-10T23:53:37Z")
Is there a way to conrtol the flash timeline with an external html file? For example, if i loaded in a textfield formatted as html, can i get the \ tags to , (…say) \_root.gotoAndPlay (33)
does this need to be in javascript, php, or xml?
thanks for looking
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 6:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-html-controls-flash-timeline/57164/2 "2004-07-11T06:22:07Z")
as far as I know the only time the HTML can communicate with the SWF is via flashvars at runtime. There may be other ways, but I haven’t seen them, however I would look further down the Javascript path. There may be something there.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 7:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-html-controls-flash-timeline/57164/3 "2004-07-12T07:36:20Z")
[http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/publishexport/scriptingwithflash/scriptingwithflash\_03.html](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/publishexport/scriptingwithflash/scriptingwithflash_03.html) and [http://www.webreference.com/js/tips/010627.html](http://www.webreference.com/js/tips/010627.html)
Try to search it with google
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 11:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-html-controls-flash-timeline/57164/4 "2004-07-12T11:55:06Z")
You can have named anchors inside Flash.
Labeling a frame gives you the oportunity to activate it as an achor.
So you can call your html page with this embeded falsh like this:
yourpagewithflash.html#labelone supposing you labeled some frame in your flash movie as “labelone”.
So basically all you need to do now is making an “a href=” tag in your dinamic text field, that directs you to the same html page with a named anchor.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-html-controls-flash-timeline/57164/5 "2004-07-12T14:29:34Z")
well there ya go. Just shoot me down how 'bout 😛
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-html-controls-flash-timeline/57164/6 "2004-07-12T16:31:01Z")
I’m actually doing a tutorial on this, and I think I’ll finish it tonight. I kinda forgot about it 😕
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-html-controls-flash-timeline/57164/7 "2004-07-13T07:02:05Z")
AHA,
This is so easy!, i feel like an idiot. All you have to do is use the actionscript asFunction. Check out this thread on Macromedia
[http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=288&threadid=858131#3072081](http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=288&threadid=858131#3072081)
Hope this helps