# Pls help on making links in XML

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pls-help-on-making-links-in-xml/265599>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 10, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pls-help-on-making-links-in-xml/265599 "2008-07-10T16:27:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![pinklamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pinklamp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pinklamp)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pls-help-on-making-links-in-xml/265599/1 "2008-07-10T16:27:51Z")

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Hi!  
Kirupa is such a great site:party:, I have learned so much from you guys.

My question is related to your “adding thumbnails” tutorial,  
url ([http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/thumbnails.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/thumbnails.htm)). I’ve already done this successfully. My question is about the xml file. \*\* I want to make each caption or the corresponding image clickable, so that a word or image can link to a respective web page when you click it. \*\* I’ve tried to use the “a href” html tags but it’s not working. :crying: By the way I’m also using a special font for the caption’s dynamic text field, so I’ve embedded the text for this. Everything works as expected in the tutorial, only I really need to add this “linking” feature.

Part of my xml looks like this, which together with the flash actionscript code, i just copied and pasted from your tutorial and replaced with the appropriate file names:

```
&lt;pic&gt;            
    &lt;image&gt;images/timbig.jpeg&lt;/image&gt;
    &lt;caption&gt;Tim&lt;/caption&gt;
    &lt;thumbnail&gt;images/timsmall.jpeg&lt;/thumbnail&gt;
&lt;/pic&gt;

```

Pls. help, many many thanks in advance and more power to all of you!!!:bounce:

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**Author:** ![sekasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pls-help-on-making-links-in-xml/265599/2 "2008-07-12T04:03:41Z")

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use CDATA tags in the xml and htmltext inside flash. 😮

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**Author:** ![stringy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@stringy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/stringy)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 7:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pls-help-on-making-links-in-xml/265599/3 "2008-07-12T07:10:39Z")

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example here

> **[XML/Flash gallery - Captions not showing.](https://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2089357)**
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**Author:** ![pinklamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pinklamp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pinklamp)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pls-help-on-making-links-in-xml/265599/4 "2008-07-12T16:56:31Z")

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**thanks!!! will try to do what you did on that file:party:**