# Possible to Imbed Images in TextBoxes?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-imbed-images-in-textboxes/183137>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 24, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-imbed-images-in-textboxes/183137 "2006-03-24T03:35:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Maive](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Maive)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-imbed-images-in-textboxes/183137/1 "2006-03-24T03:35:28Z")

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[FONT=“Times New Roman”][COLOR=“DarkSlateBlue”][SIZE=“3”]Hello all:

Is it possible to create a textbox with a scrollbar that can contain both text and images? Maybe some sort of ActionScript that has to do with loading external files that contains both text and images? But I presume that if it’s going into a textbox, it’d have to be text… I’d like my content in a textbox though (rather than in a movieclip) so it could be scrollable.

Hmmm… what I’d do is create my page in Fireworks with the text and images. So that way I can assign hyperlinks on keywords. Then the file would be saved as either PNG or HTML. Either way, could Flash import such files into a textbox and still preserve the hyperlinks?.. hmmm, just throwing out a bunch of possible solutions to this…

Thanks for any input on this–[/SIZE]

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**Author:** ![Maive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Maive](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Maive)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-imbed-images-in-textboxes/183137/2 "2006-03-25T01:42:01Z")

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[FONT=“Times New Roman”][COLOR=“DarkSlateBlue”]Ahhh no, nobody eh? [/COLOR][/FONT] :bored:

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**Author:** ![krilnon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/krilnon/32/34_2.png) [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-imbed-images-in-textboxes/183137/3 "2006-03-25T02:00:42Z")

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You can’t create a TextField with that sort of content. There are numerous different scrollbar tutorials (and source files) that scroll MovieClips instead of only text, you could incorporate images and text into something of that nature.

Flash TextFields only support a limited form of HTML, but you can have hyperlinks in them.

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**Author:** ![TheCanadian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-imbed-images-in-textboxes/183137/4 "2006-03-25T02:11:14Z")

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Actually you can use the \<img /\> tag to embed images into a TextField, but in effect all that does is create an empty movie clip and load the image into that.

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**Author:** ![krilnon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/krilnon/32/34_2.png) [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-imbed-images-in-textboxes/183137/5 "2006-03-25T02:23:48Z")

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Yes, you’re right. I haven’t ever had luck getting that to work well, though. :sigh:

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**Author:** ![TheCanadian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-imbed-images-in-textboxes/183137/6 "2006-03-25T02:38:59Z")

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Take a look at _Program Files\>Macromedia\>Flash 8\>Samples and Tutorials\>Samples\>Text\>TextEnhancements_