# Text in Buttons

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-in-buttons/12375>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 30, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-in-buttons/12375 "2003-01-30T15:05:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![gneville16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@gneville16](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gneville16)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-in-buttons/12375/1 "2003-01-30T15:05:12Z")

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Howdi :o

I’ve made a symbol (button) and want to put text inside it. I tried double clicking then adding a text box but when I play it and roll my mouse over the finger on the mouse changes to the text icon because it senses the text box and can’t be clicked unless I click the edge of the button.

Hope that makes sense and you can help me out.

Thanks…:bounce:

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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:** [January 30, 2003, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-in-buttons/12375/2 "2003-01-30T17:59:42Z")

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you are adding the text to th mc button and therefore it reacts along with the button.  
There are several ways to fix it. I would consider putting the text in a higher layer…

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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:** [January 30, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-in-buttons/12375/3 "2003-01-30T18:04:20Z")

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dont make the text selectable or editable (make it static) and the text cursor wont appear

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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:** [January 30, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-in-buttons/12375/4 "2003-01-30T18:05:25Z")

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Not sure how I do that, but the text was set to ‘dynamic’ and I was told to change it to ‘static’ which fixed the problem.

Cheers,

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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:** [January 30, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-in-buttons/12375/5 "2003-01-30T18:13:18Z")

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sorry, I don’t seem to be much help lately

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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:** [March 1, 2003, 9:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-in-buttons/12375/6 "2003-03-01T09:09:57Z")

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I have exact the same problem.

In the tutorial “Creating a Full Flash Site”  
on [www.kirupa.com](http://www.kirupa.com)

There is a example but no explanation.

Can some one please tell how to solve this problem?

Tnx

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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:** [March 1, 2003, 9:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-in-buttons/12375/7 "2003-03-01T09:36:51Z")

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What is your problem exactly? If it’s the same problem as gneville16 then Senocular already stated the solution.

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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:** [March 1, 2003, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-in-buttons/12375/8 "2003-03-01T09:56:17Z")

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Hi mate, once you’ve made the text box change its properties at the bottom left of the page so the text is set to STATIC instead of Dynamic or any other option. This should solve the problem, at least it did for my anyway,

Good luck.

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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:** [March 1, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-in-buttons/12375/9 "2003-03-01T19:36:48Z")

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just highlight text and button and hit ctrl+b twice

then hit F8 and choose button

tada