\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 16, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-txt-file-with-simple-html-formatting/23364 "2003-06-16T23:30:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 13\
**Page:** 1
**Author:**  [@advan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/advan)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-txt-file-with-simple-html-formatting/23364/1 "2003-06-16T23:30:54Z")
Ok… I have a dynamic text box. Fonts embedded, using the flash mx scrollbar component, the dynamic text box’s instance name is “scroller”.
The actionscript code I am using is as follows…
loadVarsText = new loadVars();
loadVarsText.load(“news.txt”);
loadVarsText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
trace(“done loading”);
scroller.html = true;
scroller.htmlText = this.var1;
} else {
trace(“not loaded”);
}
};
And… my news.txt file starts with var1=
Everything loads/works fine UNTIL I try using html tags in my news.txt file. The one I need to use is the \\ bold tag and the font color tags. When I put text inbetween the html tags, nothing shows up. Under my Dynamic Text box properties, the button with \<\> enabling HTML formatting is selected…
absolutely stumped!
thx!
---
**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-txt-file-with-simple-html-formatting/23364/2 "2003-06-17T00:13:00Z")
I can’t see anything wrong with your code. Can you post your txt file? I know with color tags, the only way it will work (for me anyhow) is if you use hex, if you don’t, the text will disappear. For instance, instead of:
```php
```
you need to use this:
```php
```
Maybe that’s it?
---
**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-txt-file-with-simple-html-formatting/23364/3 "2003-06-17T00:15:21Z")
my news.txt file is as follows…
var1=This is a test. \ please bold this text \
That pumps out just the “This is a test.” and completely ignores the bold text. I even tried using lowercase \\ tags but no diff.
☹
---
**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-txt-file-with-simple-html-formatting/23364/4 "2003-06-17T00:18:35Z")
search the forums! your answer is already there!
* * *
there guys, i joined the search the forums bandwagon
---
**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-txt-file-with-simple-html-formatting/23364/5 "2003-06-17T00:46:09Z")
I just did a search and couldn’t find anything close. Either way, your tags were used in the post, but obviously it worked. All I can say is double check everything, maybe try doing it over.
Prstudio - do you know of a thread to explain this? I couldn’t find one.
---
**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-txt-file-with-simple-html-formatting/23364/6 "2003-06-17T01:52:56Z")
> \*Originally posted by prstudio \*
> \*\*search the forums! your answer is already there!
* * *
there guys, i joined the search the forums bandwagon \*\*
actually I did search, tried out a few things but nothing…
hmmm
---
**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-txt-file-with-simple-html-formatting/23364/7 "2003-06-23T00:10:33Z")
Although u embedded the font, Flash doesnt include bold and italic automatically. Thats y bold and italic tags may not work.
To solve dis problem, create an text box using the same font u want, using bold, italic and regular style. Embeed the font.
Just in case u dont know, if you embed the font in one text field, all text fields in the movie can use it.
\*\*Keep in mind dat embedding the bold and italic style will triplicate the file size. So only embed bold and italic if u really need to use them. \*\*
There it is.
=)
---
**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-txt-file-with-simple-html-formatting/23364/8 "2003-06-23T02:03:07Z")
Or, I think, you can use system fonts that won’t need embedding like one of my favorites, trebuchet MS, or ariel, or sans fonts. They aren’t as fun, but they’ll work.
:beam:
---
**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-txt-file-with-simple-html-formatting/23364/9 "2003-06-23T02:32:40Z")
HTML tags suported by Flash:[AS]\
\
\
\
\
\[/AS]
---
**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-txt-file-with-simple-html-formatting/23364/10 "2003-06-23T04:45:42Z")
there’s a technote about that, claudio. 😉
[http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/htmltext.htm](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/htmltext.htm)
---
**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-txt-file-with-simple-html-formatting/23364/11 "2003-06-23T04:51:54Z")
Thx Kax =)
Actually i did take dat from the tech note and posted here… i think sometimes ppl are kinda lazy to check the links :beam:
---
**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 4:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-txt-file-with-simple-html-formatting/23364/12 "2003-06-23T04:59:21Z")
they will… as long as they are interested in solving their problems. 😛
---
**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-txt-file-with-simple-html-formatting/23364/13 "2003-06-23T17:33:11Z")
Im attaching an example file.
=)