# Glow Filter on text as a Button?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/glow-filter-on-text-as-a-button/223074>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 19, 2007, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/glow-filter-on-text-as-a-button/223074 "2007-04-19T10:31:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![fissionchips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9e8a1a/32.png) [@fissionchips](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fissionchips)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/glow-filter-on-text-as-a-button/223074/1 "2007-04-19T10:31:53Z")

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Hi guys. I’ve been referring back to this site on and off for a couple of years, but I’m only just getting involved with Flash now. I’m coming to the close of a group project at Uni, and am developing a site for our final product. I am much more design-minded than code, so AS 2.0 is a challenge. Here’s what I’m trying to achieve:

I would like to take the principals from this tutorial - [glow filer - and use text as a button behaviour instead of a movieclip. This is so that I can create a navbar with the glow filter effect on hyperlinked text and then incorporate the [URL=“http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/menu\_with\_slider.htm”]slider](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/filter_effects.htm) tutorial.

I have managed to get both working perfectly well seperately, but together they don’t want to play because obviously one is an mc, the other a button, so I get a conflict in the coding. Would anyone have any ideas on this? If so, I would be incredibly grateful!

Thanks for looking!