# Linking with just plain text
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-with-just-plain-text/14989
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 5, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-with-just-plain-text/14989 "2003-03-05T02:44:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@buddylee](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/buddylee)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-with-just-plain-text/14989/1 "2003-03-05T02:44:32Z")
hey I have what should be a simple problem, but can’t seem to figure it out. I have this text box and all of the text is dynamic. In the text I have this sentence that reads “If you need any help please go to my contact page to get information on how to get in touch with me.” Now what I want to do is on the word ‘contact’ I want that to be a hyperlink to my Contact page. How do I make that a link? I can’t highlight it and go to actions, because it is not a symbol. Is there any way to do it without making it a symbol?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-with-just-plain-text/14989/2 "2003-03-05T02:58:15Z")
search for **asfunction** in the actionscript dictionary =)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2003, 3:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-with-just-plain-text/14989/3 "2003-03-05T03:13:38Z")
could make it render HTML
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2003, 5:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-with-just-plain-text/14989/4 "2003-03-05T05:41:19Z")
> could make it render HTML
do you mean that you only get it with dynamic text?
it works with both static and dynamic text 🙂
see example … 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2003, 7:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/linking-with-just-plain-text/14989/5 "2003-03-05T07:58:03Z")
No, you could just html-enable the textfield, and add the a href tag around that sentence to make it a link…but asfunction is cool.
Check [http://www.flashcomponents.net/components.cfm?nav=2&cat=0](http://www.flashcomponents.net/components.cfm?nav=2&cat=0) and have a look at Vera Fleischer new “super link” component…