# HTML formatting not showing up in dynamic text

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-formatting-not-showing-up-in-dynamic-text/276262
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 25, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-formatting-not-showing-up-in-dynamic-text/276262 "2008-11-25T03:53:57Z")
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### Author: ![nxsd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@nxsd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nxsd)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-formatting-not-showing-up-in-dynamic-text/276262/1 "2008-11-25T03:53:57Z")

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I have a dynamic text box with this code associated with it:

```auto
aText.htmlText = "";
aText.htmlText += "<b><a href = " + aRSSLinks* + ">";
aText.htmlText += aRSSTitles* + "</a></b><br />";
aText.htmlText += aRSSDescriptions* + "<br />";

```

The text comes up, but is not formatted as bold or linked. When I trace(aText.htmlText); there are a bunch of random \<TEXTFORMAT\>, \<P\>, and \<FONT\> tags, but not the \<b\>,\<a\>, and \<br\> tags.

Any ideas? Thanks.