# FMX-html Entities in text field

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-html-entities-in-text-field/30574>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 10, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-html-entities-in-text-field/30574 "2003-09-10T18:38:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![borispc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@borispc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/borispc)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-html-entities-in-text-field/30574/1 "2003-09-10T18:38:21Z")

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Hi!  
I am dinamically loading and external text from a text file (data.txt) into a text field in flash. That text field reads the external string as html text so I can format the text (face, color, etc) in the text field externally. Easy huh? The problem is that for some reason flash doesn’t detect html entities. Example: If flash encounters an ampersand in that external text it doesn’t load the rest of the text. If I use the html entity for that character (that is &amp) it doesn’t work either.  
Any ideas why all the html tags are recognized but not the entities?  
thanx.