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**Created:** [August 28, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-html-formatting-help/29616 "2003-08-28T17:50:49Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Ironman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ironman)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-html-formatting-help/29616/1 "2003-08-28T17:50:49Z")
Alright, getting frustrated with dynamic text html formatting…
I create an ordered list with the traditional \< ol\> and \< li\> tags and it will indent the text, but will not number the lines. Also, I can’t center text. Any solutions?
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-html-formatting-help/29616/2 "2003-08-28T18:18:46Z")
As far as I’m concerned, there are some tags that Flash don’t support. Some of them are the hr (horizontal rule), table, center. However, the ol and/or the ul tags should work.
If you are loading this from an external file, then in a keyframe (preferably in the beginning of the movie), type in the following
```auto
textboxInstanceName.html = true;
//If you are using the loadText.onLoad = function(),
then replace the following line with the following:
textboxInstanceName.htmlText = this.textboxVariable;
```
Hope that helps (and hope that MX 2004 will support other HTML formatting tags like \< center \> as well :beam: ).
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-html-formatting-help/29616/3 "2003-08-29T17:14:27Z")
the action script that I am using in my frame is:
loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load(“jaypidgeon.txt”);
textboxjayinteview.htmlText = this.textboxVariable;
{jayinterview.text = this.jay;
};
my file is called - jaypidgeon.txt
Instance name - jayinterview
and variable - Jay.
I’ve changed the 3rd line as instructed but all that appears in the text box is html code describing the alignment and data from the text properties in flash.
Before I change the third line of action sript above the text loaded fine but would accept html tags.
What am I missing???:hangover: