# Html coding in textbox
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-coding-in-textbox/6480
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [October 8, 2002, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-coding-in-textbox/6480 "2002-10-08T16:42:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@vazash](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/vazash)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2002, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-coding-in-textbox/6480/1 "2002-10-08T16:42:10Z")
hi everyone,
Can anyone tell me what the ‘html’ tag is in the text properties, i understand that it is a way to code html into the textbox and would like to know how does one do that…i.e. code html…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2002, 5:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-coding-in-textbox/6480/2 "2002-10-08T17:01:51Z")
Umm, I believe in Flash 5 you check that HTML tag box and then give your textBox an instance name (i will use myTextBox)
```auto
myTextBox = "< B>This is bold text "
```
Remove the spaces between the bold tags of course. I am not sure if this works as I use MX and it works a tad bit differently in that aspect, but I think it should work.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2002, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-coding-in-textbox/6480/3 "2002-10-09T14:07:11Z")
The accepted tags are
\< font\>
\< a\>
\< b\>
\< i\>
\< br\>
\< p\>
without the spaces of course
You use them in exactly the same way as in html - and the rules of nested syntax and closing tags apply
don’t forget that if you use an embedded font with \< b\> and/or \< i\> then you need to include the bold, italic and/or bold-italic outlines as appropriate.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2002, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-coding-in-textbox/6480/4 "2002-10-09T16:34:15Z")
thanks for the help guys but after many unsuccessful attempts it has not worked…can you pls tell me the steps that i have to go through to attach the html coding…do i have to type the text in the actions panel if so then this should be in the key frame right…but when i type text in the keyframe then i don’t get it in a paragraph form or rather verse form which i would like…
thanks once again for the help
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2002, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-coding-in-textbox/6480/5 "2002-10-09T17:23:25Z")
Ok, assuming you’ve created a dynamic text field on the main timeline called showText with the html box checked, if you declare the variable
showText="\< a href=‘[http://www.kirupaforum.com](http://www.kirupaforum.com)’\>This is a link to Kirupaforum.\"
don’t put a space between the \"\<"\ and the \“a”\ - I have to so they’ll show up in the forum
When you publish, you’ll have a link to this forum
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-coding-in-textbox/6480/6 "2002-10-09T17:27:26Z")
Yes, and the text MUST be entered in actionscript to render as HTML.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2002, 9:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-coding-in-textbox/6480/7 "2002-10-10T09:40:23Z")
cool thanks for the quick replies, i really enjoy posting on this forum coz the replies come in so fast…another question guys, I have made a separate mc, in which on different keyframes namely 1,2,3 i have made a dynamic textfield with different text in the different keyframes…the data in the text field in frame 1 is changed in frame 2 and so on in frame 3. I have targetted buttons to these various keyframes but the data does not change. I have labeled the keyframes too but to no effect. I used the tell target\>gotoandStop() actions to stop at individual keyframes and no matter what button i click on I still get the information that is contained in keyframe1 when it should show information shown in keyframe 3 or 2…what am i doing wrong here…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2002, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-coding-in-textbox/6480/8 "2002-10-10T14:45:45Z")
Here is an easier way…
Try this… it only uses 1 frame.
On your frame add these action…
```auto
myText1 = "This is page 1";
myText2 = "This is page 2";
myText3 = "This is page 3";
myTextBox = myText1;
```
Then create your dynamic textBox and give it the var name “myTextBox” (without quotes).
Now make three buttons.
On button 1 add this…
```auto
on (release) {
_root.myTextBox = _root.myText1;
}
```
On button 2 add this…
```auto
on (release) {
_root.myTextBox = _root.myText2;
}
```
On button 3 add this…
```auto
on (release) {
_root.myTextBox = _root.myText3;
}
```
Now test the movie and click each button.
I hope this helps!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2002, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-coding-in-textbox/6480/9 "2002-10-11T14:30:20Z")
lost, thanks for the help and the code. It worked fine 🙂 but can u pls tell me where i went wrong in the code that i had created as mentioned in my earlier post…will try seeing what i had done wrong myself but would appreciate some input from all you super flashers out there…also does scripting load faster than if i use a text box with information written inside it…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2002, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-coding-in-textbox/6480/10 "2002-10-11T16:38:55Z")
Can you post an example .fla of what you were trying to do before?
Yes, I believe loading text through AS or an external file does load faster than if you just put it in a text box. Not 100% sure, but I think it does.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2002, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-coding-in-textbox/6480/11 "2002-10-14T18:31:51Z")
But what if you have a lot of text to put in “myTextBox”?
how can you make a blank line, i tried /r/n but this didn’t work…
Andreas
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2002, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-coding-in-textbox/6480/12 "2002-10-14T19:07:56Z")
To start a new line you can do this…
(not /n)
Or you can do it like this…
```auto
myText += "help
";
myText += "I superglued
";
myText += "Myself to
";
myText += "Myself";
mybox.text = myText;
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2002, 2:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-coding-in-textbox/6480/13 "2002-10-15T02:49:37Z")
lost, can u tell me what the
does to the text, andersonm mentioned something about being able to put the text on a new line right, so why can’t we use \< br \> or \< p \> or does
do something else… pls let me know thanks…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2002, 10:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-coding-in-textbox/6480/14 "2002-10-15T22:53:36Z")
If you HTML enable your text box you can simple add an HTML break tag like you demonstrated.
If you do not HTML enable your text box you can create a new line by using
. It is just a string manipulation thing I suppose.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2002, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-coding-in-textbox/6480/15 "2002-10-16T11:38:16Z")
Thanks for the quick reply lost… hope we can help each other out some other time.