# Funky (mis)alignment with styled htmlText?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/funky-mis-alignment-with-styled-htmltext/280032
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [January 21, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/funky-mis-alignment-with-styled-htmltext/280032 "2009-01-21T21:08:34Z")
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### Author:  [@Stickeroo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Stickeroo)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/funky-mis-alignment-with-styled-htmltext/280032/1 "2009-01-21T21:08:34Z")
Here’s my problem: I have a textfield that gets its content from an XML node; such a node might look like this:
```auto
blah blah blah this is text and here's some more blah blah blah]]>
```
In my actionscript, I’m creating a textField and first setting a defaultTextFormat, then applying a stylesheet (created from a parsed string literal with my styles in it).
It works fine for pretty much everything; the one (or two, actually) problems I’ve noted are italic or underlined text.
In the sample node above, you’ll notice that I have \…\ markup – that’s because I started with \…\ but it was doing weird things with spacing. Apparently, \ is doing weird things with spacing, too. Here’s a screenshot: (attached).
Some of the attributes I have set are embedFonts=true, multiline=true, wordWrap=true, and I’ve tried autoSize=“left” and autoSize=“center” with the same miserable results.
I’d appreciate any insight anyone can share! Thanks!
(Edit: The problem I’m having shows up right after the word _Factory_ in the image below)