# AS Text Animation - Can HTML Format Be Kept?
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**Created:** [January 13, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as-text-animation-can-html-format-be-kept/318229 "2011-01-13T21:16:39Z")\
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**Author:**  [@flashgroove](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flashgroove)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as-text-animation-can-html-format-be-kept/318229/1 "2011-01-13T21:16:39Z")
I am working on some text animations using ActionScript (3.0).
The type of animations that I want require tweening each character of the text. Therefore, the way I want to do this is to break apart the text string, create a text field for each character, put it into a sprite, position the sprite so that the characters form a linear text and then tween the individual character sprites.
But the problem is if I have an HTML string of text. If I try to break apart the string, then the HTML tags will break and they will be animated as if part of the text ?
Is there another way of achieving this type of character by character animation ?
Is there a way in which the HTML formatted text can be kept ?