# HTML in text box

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-in-text-box/276000
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 21, 2008, 3:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-in-text-box/276000 "2008-11-21T03:07:23Z")
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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 21, 2008, 3:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-in-text-box/276000/1 "2008-11-21T03:07:23Z")

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So I’m trying to put RSS data in a text box, with formatting to the titles and the like. I have a text box with the instance name of “aText”, and I have the ‘Render text as HTML’ checked.

```auto
aText.htmlText = "";

for each (var RSSItem:XML in aRSS) {
    aText.appendText("<b><a href = " + aRSSLinks* + ">");
    aText.appendText(RSSTitles* + "</a></b><br />");
    aText.appendText(RSSDescriptions* + "<br />");
}

```

When it is displayed, all the HTML tags are displayed and nothing is formatted. It’s probably something simple, but I’m no expert at this. Thanks for the help.