# Making text a button with actionscript
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-text-a-button-with-actionscript/6347
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [October 4, 2002, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-text-a-button-with-actionscript/6347 "2002-10-04T20:45:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@vip3r](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/vip3r)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2002, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-text-a-button-with-actionscript/6347/1 "2002-10-04T20:45:24Z")
Ok, i need to make some text a button in actionscript. I want the text to fade from one color to the other when I mouse over it, and then when i click on it, it does something. I can’t just make some text and make it into a button, because it is dynamic (like if the person typed “go” then the button text would be “go”) i’m thinking around the lines of makinga button with a fade from black to purple, then masking it with some text. any ideas how this would work?
thanx in advance,
vip3r
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2002, 2:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-text-a-button-with-actionscript/6347/2 "2002-10-05T02:25:37Z")
[size=1]just out of curiosity, why would you want to do it in
actionscript rather than with the flash interface?
it can easily be done with a box, symbol convert, and placement
of a movie of the text fade in the over position and voila!
_scratch head_
not sure other than you just WANT to do it that way…
/unflux[/size]
:cyclops:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2002, 9:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-text-a-button-with-actionscript/6347/3 "2002-10-05T09:14:19Z")
That’s difficult to do too…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2002, 2:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-text-a-button-with-actionscript/6347/4 "2002-10-06T02:37:42Z")
[size=1]how so? it can be done in less than 5 min…at least for
me! 😛
/unflux[/size]
:goatee:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2002, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-text-a-button-with-actionscript/6347/5 "2002-10-06T07:35:31Z")
Scripted?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2002, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-text-a-button-with-actionscript/6347/6 "2002-10-06T13:23:22Z")
perhaps I am missing something, but why not put your dynamic text inside of a movie clip…then you can click on it all day.