# External loaded text problem!

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 23, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-loaded-text-problem/71329 "2004-11-23T16:46:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![xyron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/f17d59/32.png) [@xyron](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/xyron)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-loaded-text-problem/71329/1 "2004-11-23T16:46:03Z")

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Hello All!

You probably heard about this tons of times and are going to laugh at me but still i need some help.

My Problem:

I am loading text from an external .txt file into a dynamic textbox. Now I was wondering if it is also possible to load a url link located in the same file so a visitor can click directly on the link to go to the specified page.

I tried this by using the following action script:

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## loadText = new loadVars(); loadText.load(“links.txt”); loadText.onLoad = function() { link1.text = this.link1; link2.text = this.link2; link3.text = this.link3; link4.text = this.link4; link5.text = this.link5; link6.text = this.link6; link7.text = this.link7; link8.text = this.link8; link9.text = this.link9; };

I also enabled the “\<\>” feature on my dynamic textbox and my .txt file looks like this:

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## link1=\<a href=“[http://www.test.com](http://www.test.com)” target="\_blank"\>Link Description\</a\> link2=\<a href=“[http://www.test.com](http://www.test.com)” target="\_blank"\>Link Description\</a\> link3=\<a href=“[http://www.test.com](http://www.test.com)” target="\_blank"\>Link Description\</a\> link4=\<a href=“[http://www.test.com](http://www.test.com)” target="\_blank"\>Link Description\</a\> link5=\<a href=“[http://www.test.com](http://www.test.com)” target="\_blank"\>Link Description\</a\> link6=\<a href=“[http://www.test.com](http://www.test.com)” target="\_blank"\>Link Description\</a\> link7=\<a href=“[http://www.test.com](http://www.test.com)” target="\_blank"\>Link Description\</a\> link8=\<a href=“[http://www.test.com](http://www.test.com)” target="\_blank"\>Link Description\</a\> link9=\<a href=“[http://www.test.com](http://www.test.com)” target="\_blank"\>Link Description\</a\>

This however doesn’t work correctly.  
Instead of showing the “Link Description” text  
I get the url text, but nothing happens when i click on it.

What am I doing wrong or what am I missing? Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanx in advance and greetings - Mike.