# \<br\> in htmlText?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/br-in-htmltext/321660>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 27, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/br-in-htmltext/321660 "2011-04-27T00:33:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Freddythunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@Freddythunder](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Freddythunder)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/br-in-htmltext/321660/1 "2011-04-27T00:33:17Z")

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Hello, after searching for about an hour (and finding a lot of people asking the same question with no answers) I figured I’d ask. I hope its something dumb so you can tell me and call me a noob and I’ll be on my way.

I been doing more programming in other languages through the past two flash changes and am now using CS5 (and AS 2.0) for work. Tell me, why doesn’t this work:

```auto

this.createTextField("test",1,100,100,500,500);
test.html = true;
test.htmlText = "Hi<br><br>Hi";

```

No breaks show up - it appears as “HiHi”  
I’ve tried \<br /\> and \<BR\> etc. embedFonts && regular.  
Why?