# Triggering a function with external text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/triggering-a-function-with-external-text/157178>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 30, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/triggering-a-function-with-external-text/157178 "2005-07-30T17:00:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Macro\_design](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Macro\_design](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Macro_design)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/triggering-a-function-with-external-text/157178/1 "2005-07-30T17:00:02Z")

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Hi,

It’s been a while since the last time I was on this forum - a nice long holiday to Italy is the reason to that. Now, my question is, is it possible to trigger a function via externally loaded text?

So, let’s say I have some kind of a news reader, and I wan’t a couple of buttons in there: “next” & “previous”. Is there some kind of tag I could use, to make some of the extrenally loaded text, to trigger my “next” & “previous” functions - and if there is, then, what would that tag look like?