# textArea anchor tags

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-anchor-tags/168949>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 11, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-anchor-tags/168949 "2005-11-11T13:53:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![nixon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@nixon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nixon)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-anchor-tags/168949/1 "2005-11-11T13:53:41Z")

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Is there any way to create an anchor (i.e. \<a name=“top”\> --\> \<a href="#top"\> inside of a textArea component utilizing an external .txt file? I’ve looked everywhere. If you cannot, is there an alternate way of going back to top of a textArea?

Thanks in Advance!!