# HTML Bold don't work, why?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-bold-dont-work-why/239848
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 26, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-bold-dont-work-why/239848 "2007-09-26T16:02:03Z")
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### Author: ![VirgoAnima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c68b51/32.png) [@VirgoAnima](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/VirgoAnima)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-bold-dont-work-why/239848/1 "2007-09-26T16:02:03Z")

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Can anyone tell me why certain html attributes that I assign to a dynamic text field are not working?

I’m creating an xml document with php here:  
[http://www.redlinemediagroup.com/ahtahthiki/xml/exhibits.php](http://www.redlinemediagroup.com/ahtahthiki/xml/exhibits.php)

You’ll have to right click and view source cuase it’ll load a blank page.

I have all the text as “CDATA” because for some crazy reason html text doesnt work in flash without it???

But anyways I am using normal html just like always with “\<b\>word\</b\>” and “\<u\>word\</u\>” but the crazy thing is that only certain attributes work. Bold is not working, and its actually causing the text I set to bold to not even show up. Why would underline work but not bold? im going crazy

i have this as my code

```auto

thetext.html=true;
thetext.htmlText=thexmlnode;

```

what could i be doing wrong?