# Static text button

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-button/115034>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 4, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-button/115034 "2004-07-04T22:23:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sushifiend3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Sushifiend3000](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sushifiend3000)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-button/115034/1 "2004-07-04T22:23:00Z")

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Is it possible to assign button behavior to a single word or a few words in a static text field, besides html anchor tags? For example, I’d like to click on a word and load an external swf into a movie clip.

Thanks,  
Jerome

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 6:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-button/115034/2 "2004-07-05T06:58:35Z")

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With a little trick:)  
Make a “blank” button (ie only define the hitarea of the button), place that over the word you want and give the button the actions you want.  
Or, make a movieclip, alpha 0, place it and assign the actions to the mc.

scotty(-:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 7:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-button/115034/3 "2004-07-05T07:53:28Z")

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Wow, thanks. If I’d gotten any sleep in the past few days I may have thought of that myself. 😛

Jerome

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 8:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/static-text-button/115034/4 "2004-07-05T08:00:56Z")

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Welcome=)

> [@Sushifiend3000](#):
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> Wow, thanks. If I’d gotten any sleep in the past few days I may have thought of that myself. 😛
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> Jerome

You’d better be off to bed then:lol:

scotty(-: