# Help with bottons and loading text
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-bottons-and-loading-text/96864
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [December 14, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-bottons-and-loading-text/96864 "2003-12-14T20:11:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@ShinjaIkari](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ShinjaIkari)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-bottons-and-loading-text/96864/1 "2003-12-14T20:11:14Z")
Okay. I am doing this just to get some help. I have never been very good with Actionscript. Never really had a good tutorial I guess to help me out. Still looking for one. Okay basically heres my problem. I have these five buttons. Now what I want is for when someone clicks on a button for it to have some buttons under that come out. When you click on one of those buttons what I want it to do is load a box with scrollable text in it. But I just seem to be dumb and can’t figure it out. _notes actionscript has always hated him_ Can anyone help me
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-bottons-and-loading-text/96864/2 "2003-12-15T02:43:01Z")
[AS]
on(release){
\_root.mytextArea.text = “a whole bunch of text and whatever else you want.”
}
[/AS]
click and drag the textarea component onto your stage and give it the instance name mytextArea and it should work.