# Button action and text

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/button-action-and-text/50888>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Tags:** node-red-dashboard\
**Created:** [11 September 2021 12:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/button-action-and-text/50888 "2021-09-11T12:50:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rcalves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@rcalves](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/rcalves)\
**Post date:** [11 September 2021 12:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/button-action-and-text/50888/1 "2021-09-11T12:50:05Z")

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Good morning, I'm new to node-red and how can I make it, for example, when clicking on a button, it loads the content of a text and displays it? Is there any training, tutorial or handout?

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [11 September 2021 13:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/button-action-and-text/50888/2 "2021-09-11T13:20:10Z")

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Welcome to the forum @rcalves

What do you mean by "loads the content of a text"?

I recommend watching this playlist: [Node-RED Essentials](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyNBB9VCLmo1hyO-4fIZ08gqFcXBkHy-6). The videos are done by the developers of node-red. They're nice & short and to the point.

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**Author:** ![Hichem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c67d28/32.png) [@Hichem](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Hichem)\
**Post date:** [12 September 2021 19:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/button-action-and-text/50888/3 "2021-09-12T19:02:02Z")

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Hi,  
All what you need to use is a dashboard button, a file node and a text node, link them together and configure each one to send the msg payload to the next one.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [26 September 2021 19:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/button-action-and-text/50888/4 "2021-09-26T19:02:48Z")

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