Help loading external TXT file to a text area

I know this may sound basic. I a beginner in Flash. I have read some books about flash and currently reading an actionscripting book.

This is a photoshop design of the flash site I want to make.

Following some tutorial and editing it a little bit, I placed a text area, and have a TXT file for the content and a CSS file for the styles. I pasted this code to the OUR STORY button:

on (release) {

myStyle = new TextField.StyleSheet();
myStyle.load(“example.css”);
TextHolder.styleSheet = myStyle;
thisText = new LoadVars();
thisText.load(“example.txt”);
thisText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
TextHolder.text = thisText.myText;
}
};

}

What comes up is a big white text box with a scrollbar, and when I click the button the text appears in the white area.

Two things I dont like here.

  1. I don’t want a big white text box with a scrollbar to be sitting there when I haven’t clicked anything.

  2. It’s white. I want it to be invisible or black to blend with the rest of the site.

I would like the text to appear like the one in the Photoshop design. Thank you for your cooperation. This is the first all-Flash site I do. Any help is very much appreciated. Thanks,

Leo