# Flash input fields displaying weird html tags

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-input-fields-displaying-weird-html-tags/195756>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 2, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-input-fields-displaying-weird-html-tags/195756 "2006-08-02T21:44:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![flash1810](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@flash1810](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flash1810)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-input-fields-displaying-weird-html-tags/195756/1 "2006-08-02T21:44:53Z")

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Hello everyone!

i am building a small flash form where i have 2 input fields to which i have assigned variable names.

for testing purposes at when i click the submit button i have flash to trace the values of these variables.

i was expecting to see in the output window only the text i have entered in the fields.

Instead what i see is this  
\<TEXTFORMAT LEADING=“2”\>\<P ALIGN=“LEFT”\>\<FONT FACE=“Verdana” SIZE=“10” COLOR="#00AFEF" LETTERSPACING=“0” KERNING=“0”\>test\</FONT\>\</P\>\</TEXTFORMAT\>  
\<TEXTFORMAT LEADING=“2”\>\<P ALIGN=“LEFT”\>\<FONT FACE=“Verdana\_10pt\_st” SIZE=“10” COLOR="#00AFEF" LETTERSPACING=“0” KERNING=“0”\>[test@test.com](mailto:test@test.com)\</FONT\>\</P\>\</TEXTFORMAT\>

Anybody knows a way around this?

cheers,