# Formatting dynamically loaded text
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-dynamically-loaded-text/21866
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 27, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-dynamically-loaded-text/21866 "2003-05-27T14:16:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@alicia](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/alicia)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-dynamically-loaded-text/21866/1 "2003-05-27T14:16:18Z")
hello,
I hope this question hasn’t already been answered. I have a scroller dynamically loading text from an external text file. (.txt). However, Flash wants to ignore the styles (bold, italics) that I have defined in the external text file. Is there a way around this?
-alicia
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-dynamically-loaded-text/21866/2 "2003-05-27T14:29:54Z")
Hi Alicia,
If you have formatted your text using html tags you will need to use this code when loading is succesful:
[AS]
scroller.html = true;
scroller.htmlText = this.textVariable
[/AS]
where scroller is the instance name you have given your text box/scroller
where textVariable is the name of your var inside your txt file
hope that helps
SteveD
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-dynamically-loaded-text/21866/3 "2003-05-27T14:44:32Z")
How did you define the styles in your text file exactly?
pom :phil:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-dynamically-loaded-text/21866/4 "2003-05-27T18:22:10Z")
Thanks, I’ll try my best and if it doesn’t work, I’ll get back to ya!