This might give you some ideas on accomplishing what you needs to do -use split().join():
http://troyworks.com/blog/2008/03/14/flash-textfield-actionscript-hyperlink-in-as30/ _ _ _ Erik Mattheis Senior Web Developer Minneapolis T 952 346 6610 C 612 377 2272 Weber Shandwick Advocacy starts here. PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 - Gold Medal Winner The Holmes Report Global Agency of the Year PR News Agency of the Year -----Original Message----- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Murphy Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 12:47 PM To: 'Flash Coders List' Subject: [Flashcoders] Link text indexes in a TextField Hi. :) Does anyone know of a way to get the beginning and ending index of a link within a TextField? I want the indexes of the beginning and ending of the text that makes up the link. For example if I pass the following HTML text into the TextField: [p]Lorem ipsum [a href="event:block1"]dolor sit[/a] amet.[/p] What I want is the beginning and ending indexes of the "dolor sit" text when the user clicks on it. The TextEvent.LINK event passes out the value of the "href" within the link text (ie: "block1"), which isn't terribly useful in this case. ( ps: I used square brackets in the example HTML text rather than angle brackets to try avoiding issues with the list's mailer, which doesn't like HTML code in emails. ) ------------------------------ Andrew Murphy Interactive Media Developer amur...@delvinia.com Delvinia 370 King Street West, 5th Floor, Box 4 Toronto Canada M5V 1J9 P (416) 364-1455 ext. 232 F (416) 364-9830 W www.delvinia.com _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders