# HTML Object?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-object/173927>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 30, 2005, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-object/173927 "2005-12-30T23:36:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Caiyern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@Caiyern](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Caiyern)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-object/173927/1 "2005-12-30T23:36:24Z")

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Hello,

I am currently building a chat room in flash, and am having some difficulty with displaying emoticons. Is there any way to get Flash to interpret an \<img\> tag? I can’t seem to find an HTML object or something of the sort. Any help would be appreciated.

Edit: Okay, I found the “Render Text as HTML” property for dynamic textboxes. However, I still seem to be having some problems.

dispField is a Multiline textbox that wraps its text.

```auto

_root.dispField.html = true;
_root.dispField.htmlText = "<img src='http://www.removed.com/images/Emoticons/smile.gif'>";

```

Unfortunately, it fails to show the image. Other HTML tags appear to be working, just not the \<img\> tags. Any ideas why?

Thanks,  
-Caiyern