# Formatting text inside a scrollable textbox

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-text-inside-a-scrollable-textbox/84815>\
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**Created:** [March 30, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-text-inside-a-scrollable-textbox/84815 "2005-03-30T18:10:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-text-inside-a-scrollable-textbox/84815/1 "2005-03-30T18:10:23Z")

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I’m trying to separate the text in my scrollable textbox into separate paragraphs, with space in between each paragraph, but I don’t know how to do this in ActionScript. So far, the frame actions look like this:

textField = " "

(There’s text in between the " “, but I’m not going to paste it here because there’s a lot.”

Also, I’m trying to format the text, so that the headings of the paragraphs are bold while the rest of the text is normal.

I hope I’m making sense here. Can anybody help me out? Thanks.

-J