# Scrolling HTML text with links - idiots guide needed!
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**Created:** [April 11, 2008, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrolling-html-text-with-links-idiots-guide-needed/257217 "2008-04-11T10:32:22Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Tony\_Barnes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Tony_Barnes)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrolling-html-text-with-links-idiots-guide-needed/257217/1 "2008-04-11T10:32:22Z")
Hi All,
Firstly, sorry for asking this, as I know it’s been asked before - I’ve found a few threads - but to put it bluntly, I am getting a headache trying to work out what the fudge is going on with Flash!! Previous experience has simply been putting linear movies together - which is easy enough; this has blagged me.
What I am after is a text box, with a scroll bar, that displays HTML text (seemingly no other way to get bold, colour, italic, etc, or links into a scrolling text box) - as a demonstration, text that includes all of the following formatting:
> "Lordy, I’m so glad that _working with scrolling in Flash is so rewarding_- so far I’ve managed to shave 6hrs off my life **without even trying!**
If only I’d gone to [**Kirupa**](http://www.kirupa.com/forum/../)earlier, and gotten some advice [COLOR=Red] **from people who know what they’re doing…** [/COLOR]"
I’m using MX 2004, updated to ver 7 yesterday (lol, first problem was not even having scroll bar tool!!). I can get as far as having a box that scrolls. I can’t get it to display HTML properly, and I can’t get it to use the fonts I want (was just keeping it simple with Verdana) - I guess I can embed, but like I said, total novice idiot here - the scripts bit just throws me completely, really annoying as I’m self taught on all the graphics progs I use, and they’re a cinch…
Any help greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Tony