# How the heck do I do this?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-the-heck-do-i-do-this/13297>\
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**Created:** [February 11, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-the-heck-do-i-do-this/13297 "2003-02-11T15:34:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![lava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a4c791/32.png) [@lava](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lava)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-the-heck-do-i-do-this/13297/1 "2003-02-11T15:34:02Z")

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ok, I have a question, and I’m still not too clear on it. I want to have a link section on my flash page, and I have lots of links. I want to know if it’s possible to make a scrollable textbox that has the links in them. First of all, I dont know how to stick a link inside a textbox. I’ve been told that all I have to do is write inside

```php
<a href = "url">go to this page</a>

```

but I do that… and all of that is what shows up. i want my text box to look like this:

> Visit these links:  
> so and so’s page  
> so and so’s Other page

And I want it to scroll. So how do I do that? do I have to make a separate text file and load it into the textbox? or do I need to make a textbox for EVERY SINGLE LINK? (so that I’m putting in the link through the texbox properties…)  
please help…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-the-heck-do-i-do-this/13297/2 "2003-02-11T16:09:37Z")

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see this as an example

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-the-heck-do-i-do-this/13297/3 "2003-02-11T16:18:10Z")

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DAMMIT!

I hate not having flash at work… I’ll take a look at it when I get home…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-the-heck-do-i-do-this/13297/4 "2003-02-11T16:31:17Z")

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basically its just setting a textfield to recognise html either through the [\<\>] icon in the properties bar, or by using

textFieldName.html = true;

then assigning its html text to be the appropriate text with the right html tags (with a href)

```auto

textFieldName.htmlText = "< **b>title<** b>< **br><** a href=\"link.html\">click<**/a>";

```