# Bullet color in external text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bullet-color-in-external-text/27163>\
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**Created:** [July 30, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bullet-color-in-external-text/27163 "2003-07-30T18:46:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![jsites](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@jsites](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jsites)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bullet-color-in-external-text/27163/1 "2003-07-30T18:46:27Z")

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Hey again,  
I am pulling in text from external .htm files, and i have run into a bit of  
a problem. i am using the loadMovie funciton to pull in the text. i have it  
set to Render Text as HTML.

here is what the htm file looks like:

tiptext=\<body text=“white”\>\<font color=“white”\>Paragraph #1  
\<p\>Paragraph #2:  
\<ul\>  
\<li\>Item #1\</li\>  
\<li\>Item #2\</li\>  
\</ul\>  
\<br\>  
\<p\>  
\<p\>Paragraph #3\</font\>\</body\>

Everything in this file displaysexactly as it should display in flash,  
except that the bullets are black instead of white. what am i doing wrong to  
that i cannot get white bullets. after playing around in dreamweaver, i  
found that the only effective way to change bullet’s color is using the  
\<body text=“color”\> tag, so i added that to the .htm file, but it still  
isn’t working.

Any ideas out there?

thanks in advance for any help…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bullet-color-in-external-text/27163/2 "2003-07-30T18:49:07Z")

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GRRR, how can i post html tags and have them actually display here?😠 😠

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bullet-color-in-external-text/27163/3 "2003-07-30T18:56:34Z")

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Place [**i][**/i] between the tags, for example \<[**i][**/i]a href=“[www.whatever.com](http://www.whatever.com)”\>Whatever\<[**i][**/i]/a\>

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bullet-color-in-external-text/27163/4 "2003-07-30T19:02:36Z")

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Here is a repost of the code in the external htm file that flash is grabbing:

tiptext=\<\*\*body text=“white”\>\<\*\*font color=“white”\>Paragraph #1  
\<\*\*p\>Paragraph #2:  
\<**ul\>  
\<li\>Item #1\</li\>  
\<li\>Item #2\</li\>  
\<**/ul\>  
\<\*\*br\>  
\<**p\>  
\<p\>Paragraph #3\</font\>\<**/body\>

i hope this works now…

if it helps, here is the actionscript used to apply the .htm file to the dynamic text box:

//Create a new instance of the loadVars object and assign it to a variable  
loadVarsText = new loadVars();  
loadVarsText.load(“txt/tip\_02.htm”);  
//assign a function which fires when the data is loaded:  
loadVarsText.onLoad = function (success){  
tip\_text.html = true;  
tip\_text.htmlText = this.tiptext;  
}

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bullet-color-in-external-text/27163/5 "2003-07-30T19:39:31Z")

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read the help in flash or @ macromedia about html text and the supported tags, there’s really just a few, forget about body & any styles…  
[http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/technotes.html](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/technotes.html)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bullet-color-in-external-text/27163/6 "2003-07-30T19:54:12Z")

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here’s the problem though:

according to the flash help file:

"The following HTML tags are supported in text fields: \<\*\*A\>, \<\*\*B\>, \<\*\*FONT COLOR\>, \<\*\*FONT FACE\>, \<\*\*FONT SIZE\>, \<\*\*I\>, \<\*\*P\>, and \<\*\*U\>.

The following HTML attributes are supported in text fields: LEFTMARGIN, RIGHTMARGIN, ALIGN, INDENT, and LEADING.  
"

this text is taken directly from the help files that came with flash. and according to it, the unordered list (bullet list) should not be working, but it does work.

so i was hoping that maybe someone had some idea how to change the color of the bullets since it seems to be supported.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bullet-color-in-external-text/27163/7 "2003-07-30T20:24:58Z")

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I dont think thats possible.