# Externally Loaded Text Question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/externally-loaded-text-question/87324>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 20, 2005, 5:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/externally-loaded-text-question/87324 "2005-04-20T05:10:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![ultraloveninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/71e660/32.png) [@ultraloveninja](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ultraloveninja)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 5:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/externally-loaded-text-question/87324/1 "2005-04-20T05:10:53Z")

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does anyone know how to control the way that text appears when it is loaded externally from a text file?

i tried using html tags, but that didn’t work.

any ideas?