# HELP! targetting loading text in external swf

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-targetting-loading-text-in-external-swf/133651>\
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**Created:** [January 10, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-targetting-loading-text-in-external-swf/133651 "2005-01-10T20:47:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![juicestain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@juicestain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/juicestain)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-targetting-loading-text-in-external-swf/133651/1 "2005-01-10T20:47:00Z")

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I used the loading external text with CSS tutorial here on Kirupa at:  
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/cssfile.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/cssfile.htm)

Now it works fine when I run the movie on its own, where it occurs inside of a movie clip called “backtset” inside a file called “current.swf”.  
However, I’m loading this movie into a container called “contents” in my main movie and the text-loading code obviously doesn’t work as is:

```auto
var format = new TextField.StyleSheet();
var path = "jbcss.css";
format.load(path);
format.onLoad = function(success) {
	if (success) {
		output.styleSheet = format;
		myLoadVar = new LoadVars ();
 		myLoadVar.load("news.txt") 
		myLoadVar.onLoad = function (success){ 
			if (success == true) { 
				output.variable = "news" 
				output.htmlText=myLoadVar.news;
			}
		}
	} else {
		output.text = "Error loading CSS file!";
	}
};

```

I’ve tried many different targetting approaches, but being self-taught, I’m not too keen on targetting syntax. If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated.

Once again the path is like this:  
The dynamic text box is inside a movie clip called “backtest” within the file “current.swf”. “current.swf” is then loaded into a container called “contents” in the main movie.