htmlText combining img and href tags

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flashjunkie says

Hey guys,

Some help if you have found the solution to this…

im loading html formated text into a htmltext field, and i am loading in an image, but i cant get the image to work as a link.

Sample Code:


textfield_txt.htmlText = "<a href="LINK"><img src="SRC" /></a>"

that isnt the exact code i am using as i am loading the data from xml, but it is the same thing.

When you rollover the image the hand cursor appears but on click nothing happens.

Help pleaaaaaaaaaaaase!

Jay

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jurgenv says

Dunno.. never tried. If you separate the link from the image (e.g. just make a text link) does it work then? If it does then I think the Flash html engine is not advanced enough for your wishes

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theflyingtinman says

When you rollover the image the hand cursor appears but on click nothing happens.
Help pleaaaaaaaaaaaase!
Jay

I just threw together a quick test and at first got the opposite result. The image didn’t appear but when I clicked the area where the image should have been (hand cursor appeared) it navigated to the link I discovered that the image would only appear if there was some text preceding the anchor tag in the string assigned to the htmlText property. (and it still navigated to the link correctly)

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AnthonyRiccio says

why not just use a loader?

example :


var lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
lv.onData = function(content) {
  textfield_txt.htmlText = content;
}
lv.load("test.html");

The test html looks like this

test.html :


<html>
<a href="www.flashden.net"><img src="href=\"http://www.flashden.net/files/84851.png1235228978" /></a>
</html>

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flashjunkie says

When you rollover the image the hand cursor appears but on click nothing happens.
Help pleaaaaaaaaaaaase!
Jay

I just threw together a quick test and at first got the opposite result. The image didn’t appear but when I clicked the area where the image should have been (hand cursor appeared) it navigated to the link I discovered that the image would only appear if there was some text preceding the anchor tag in the string assigned to the htmlText property. (and it still navigated to the link correctly)

There is text preceding it, but it doesnt work

its not a mega important feature but i thought it would be a nice touch, never mind…

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theflyingtinman says

its not a mega important feature but i thought it would be a nice touch, never mind…

If you still want to make a link on the image you could get a MovieClip reference to it using: TextField:getImageReference(id:String) then just add a regular mouse event listener on the image MovieClip. You could even give it a rollOver effect using the mc reference.

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AnthonyRiccio says

no one ever listens to me

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Aw_Shucks says

no one ever listens to me

Yo, would that be within an actual HTML page. Or from within a xml file using CDATA ?

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AnthonyRiccio says

no one ever listens to me
Yo, would that be within an actual HTML page. Or from within a xml file using CDATA ?

That would be within a html page, of course you could use xml the same with CDATA .

Thanks for responding to me

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