# Link behavior from external text file?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/link-behavior-from-external-text-file/206005>\
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**Created:** [November 3, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/link-behavior-from-external-text-file/206005 "2006-11-03T23:53:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![designer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@designer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/designer)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/link-behavior-from-external-text-file/206005/1 "2006-11-03T23:53:23Z")

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I am dynamically loading external text into TextArea components, and it works fine. I have links within the text whose look and states are controlled by an external style sheet. I am using simple unicode txt files.

The problem comes with what can be accomplished with the text link. I can open web pages, but what I want to do is tell the flash file to perform an action such as moving to a specific frame. For example, on rolling over a link, I want the movie to go to frame 10.

I’ve tried all kinds of code, but have yet to be successful. My latest code attempt:

\<a href=“on.rollOver(‘webfiles/flash/mm01/mm01\_04.swf(gotoAndStop(10)’);”\>link text here\</a\>

Any suggestions would be welcome. If this just can’t be done let me know as well. Thanks in advance.