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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 30, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-text-rendered-as-html/34231 "2003-10-30T02:53:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:**  [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-text-rendered-as-html/34231/1 "2003-10-30T02:53:57Z")
I have a dynamic text box, which is fed text from an external text file. The “render as HTML” button is turned on. On the external text file, **what is the HTML tag for centering text?** I tried CENTER, but it failed.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-text-rendered-as-html/34231/2 "2003-10-30T02:57:01Z")
try using \\
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 4:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-text-rendered-as-html/34231/3 "2003-10-30T04:18:06Z")
The following HTML tags are supported in text fields: \
, \, \, \, \, \, \, and \.
The following HTML attributes are supported in text fields: LEFTMARGIN, RIGHTMARGIN, ALIGN, INDENT, and LEADING.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 4:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-text-rendered-as-html/34231/4 "2003-10-30T04:18:38Z")
ah, i thought \ was supported too, my bad 🙂