# Varied text in scroll bars

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/varied-text-in-scroll-bars/155492>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 18, 2005, 9:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/varied-text-in-scroll-bars/155492 "2005-07-18T09:43:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![NickLW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f07891/32.png) [@NickLW](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NickLW)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 9:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/varied-text-in-scroll-bars/155492/1 "2005-07-18T09:43:42Z")

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Is there any way to vary the text within Flash scroll bars, ie. adding some bold and italic text, different weights, etc? Everything I’ve tried to do just affects the text globally. Am I missing sometihing really obvious here?

Cheers

Nick