# Stop Scroll Bar component from having selectable text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-scroll-bar-component-from-having-selectable-text/133149>\
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**Created:** [January 6, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-scroll-bar-component-from-having-selectable-text/133149 "2005-01-06T03:20:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![orangenova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b5ac83/32.png) [@orangenova](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/orangenova)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-scroll-bar-component-from-having-selectable-text/133149/1 "2005-01-06T03:20:39Z")

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I want the text to not be able to be selected because when you click the down button a few time it selects everything automatically. The example of what i’m talking about can be seen at [http://www.mikes-music.com/mm.html](http://www.mikes-music.com/mm.html)

I was trying to use the selectable=false property

\_root.screen\_animation\_mc.myText.selectable=false;

and also checked to see if the component had the selectable property so I could set it to false, but it does not.

Any help would be great,:crazy:

Thanks