# MX04- Adding links to Basic Text Scroller

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx04-adding-links-to-basic-text-scroller/124878>\
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**Created:** [October 7, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx04-adding-links-to-basic-text-scroller/124878 "2004-10-07T15:28:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![hyrezky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/97f17d/32.png) [@hyrezky](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hyrezky)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx04-adding-links-to-basic-text-scroller/124878/1 "2004-10-07T15:28:23Z")

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I have done a search, and the only answer I found was that I need to change the dynamic text field to html. I did this, and then tried to apply an a href tag in my actionscript, and I received an erro in my output box, and no link was seen. I also tried to plug a link into the link box on the properties, when I had the dynamic text field selected, to go to a page, and that didn’t work either?

Can anyone tell me what I am overlooking…I’m sure its simple…

I also looked here,

[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/links\_dynamictextbox.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/links_dynamictextbox.htm)

but I don’t want to use that component, I want to create my own scroller, like in the Basic text scroller.

I tried to combine the features, and pull the myText dynamic window into the basic movie, and change the buttons to the following…like so:

on (press, release, keyPress “\<Up\>”) {  
currentScroll = myText.scroll;  
if (Number(currentScroll)\>1) {  
myText.scroll = currentScroll-1;  
}  
}

But that didn’t work either…thanks for anyones help in advance…  
Thanks,  
Dave