# External Formatting in textfield

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-formatting-in-textfield/162446>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 13, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-formatting-in-textfield/162446 "2005-09-13T14:10:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Grimshaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/439d5e/32.png) [@Grimshaw](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Grimshaw)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/external-formatting-in-textfield/162446/1 "2005-09-13T14:10:24Z")

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Anyone have some useful links for formatting external data in a textfield. I am using xml to pull in data from a textfile. The textfile is fomatted like a html doc and I need to be able to format the text and pictures.