# Unusual trouble with htmlText and link
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unusual-trouble-with-htmltext-and-link/217594
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 28, 2007, 5:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unusual-trouble-with-htmltext-and-link/217594 "2007-02-28T05:05:03Z")
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### Author:  [@namkavenia](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/namkavenia)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2007, 5:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unusual-trouble-with-htmltext-and-link/217594/1 "2007-02-28T05:05:03Z")
Hi! This should be an easy task, but somehow it’s not…
I’m currently working on [http://mayorgordon.net/mayorgordon.swf](http://mayorgordon.net/mayorgordon.swf)
and using htmlText in several textareas.
As you can see in the “latest news”-box, the text is both selectable and the link clickable.
However, in the News-section of the main menu, the text is selectable(you just don’t see it because of the text/background colors), but the link is not clickable(same news-element,same html-code).
This text was loaded with a loadVars symbol and treated with textFormat options. I Tried using the textformat.link, and that worked. I also tried placing another textfield in the same movieclip, but with a static link. that also worked. So it’s just this loaded htmlText - link that doesn’t.
The only thing I can think of is that the latter of the two news elements container lies deeper within the swf. than the first.
Anyone? anything?
-thomas