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**Created:** [September 20, 2002, 6:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-from-external-file-and-html/5721 "2002-09-20T06:16:41Z")\
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**Author:**  [@shuga](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/shuga)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 6:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-from-external-file-and-html/5721/1 "2002-09-20T06:16:41Z")
i have a site that i’m making that is getting its txt dynamically from external .txt files. this is easy but the problem comes when i want to format in a link or some other html code. i have done it before so i know if can be done but i can’t seem to find the source for what i did before.
when the text is displayed it looks like html code in a txt viewer not the way it’s supposed to look in a browser … you can see all the tags n stuff.
yes on the dynamic txt box in flash i have the lil button pressed down that says format txt as html. but it’s not working. i know its something simple that i’m missing … could someone please help
thanks very much
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 6:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-from-external-file-and-html/5721/2 "2002-09-20T06:42:38Z")
the dynamic text field should contain a var like myText… then at the begining of your text file put myText=“yada yada yada” then like you said format as HTML in flash (I am sure youve done all this, but I had to say it in case)…
Mind you Flash only supports HTML ol.d (😛 ) you can only use links and basic text formatting. It seems like what you posted should work… maybe post your fla with a txt?
Peace
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 7:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-from-external-file-and-html/5721/3 "2002-09-20T07:23:04Z")
You shuga,
forget about the variable, this is MX forum, so use MX way:
myText.text=variableUsedInExternalFile;
myText.html=true;
So in your external file: &content=whatever\linl\etcetc
then
textfieldInFlash.html=true;
textfieldInFlash.text=content; (after checking it’s finished loading of course…).
This MUST work!
It’s really time i get the tutorial finished for all this text crap…
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-from-external-file-and-html/5721/4 "2002-09-20T22:54:50Z")
here’s the fla and the txt file
what am i doing wrong?
the text field is a symbol on the 6th frame
thanks
i tried to attach the file but it was too large … go to [http://home.attbi.com/~xsleeperx2/vixie/vix.fla](http://home.attbi.com/~xsleeperx2/vixie/vix.fla)
[http://home.attbi.com/~xsleeperx2/vixie/anim.txt](http://home.attbi.com/~xsleeperx2/vixie/anim.txt)
this is just a site for my experiments … so if anyone who sees it wants to give a crit … they’re welcome … but understand it’s not a finished piece and probably will never be
thanks again