# Cannot render textbox text as html

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-render-textbox-text-as-html/29284
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 25, 2003, 8:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-render-textbox-text-as-html/29284 "2003-08-25T08:10:20Z")
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### Author: ![j0se](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/j0se/32/44_2.png) [@j0se](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/j0se)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2003, 8:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-render-textbox-text-as-html/29284/1 "2003-08-25T08:10:20Z")

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hi all 🙂

i have an mc with a textbox which i’m loading with data from an external text file. the box is set to ‘render as html’ but the tags in the text file are being ignored.

(i’ve tried everything i can think of, including starting from scratch several times…)

is there something that i’m missing, or is flash just playing up?

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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: [August 25, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-render-textbox-text-as-html/29284/2 "2003-08-25T08:14:39Z")

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To assign HTML formatted text to the TextField, you use the htmlText property. 😉  
[AS]loadHandler = function (success) {  
if (success) {  
// load data into textbox  
textBox.htmlText = this.text;  
} else {  
gotoAndStop(“error”);  
}  
};[/AS]

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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: [August 25, 2003, 8:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-render-textbox-text-as-html/29284/3 "2003-08-25T08:58:46Z")

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thanks so much… i was up for hours last night trying to get it to work!!  
:p:

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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: [August 25, 2003, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-render-textbox-text-as-html/29284/4 "2003-08-25T09:00:54Z")

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Hehe - No problem. 😛