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**Created:** [July 5, 2002, 11:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-page-as-textbox-source/122 "2002-07-05T23:39:52Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Kovax](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kovax)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 11:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-page-as-textbox-source/122/1 "2002-07-05T23:39:52Z")
How could I create a text box with an HTML page as the source? This way all I would do is edit the HTML page instead of the Flash movie. Similar to [http://allmaple.com](http://allmaple.com) i assume. ANy help is appreciated.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-page-as-textbox-source/122/2 "2002-07-06T00:08:26Z")
I’m barely an intermediate programmer, so I it would take me forever to hack this script out; but conceptually:
As far as being able to embed actual HTML pages - that would be dope, but Flash _can_ read XML.
How about a script that converts HTML to XML on the fly and prints the result to a text file? This would probably be slow and impractical.
OR the simple, built-in approach is to load .txt files formatted in html1.0 - which gives the same effect as in the example site.
The code for this looks like the following:
* * *
//SECTION 1 -LOAD THE TEXT FILE
loadVarsText = new LoadVars();
loadVarsText.load(“news.txt”);
loadVarsText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
trace (“done loading”);
// SECTION 2 - HTML FORMATTING
text.html = true;
text.htmlText= this.textfield;
} else {
trace (“not loaded”);
}
};
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So the instance name of your text field is “text” (obviously no quotes) and the first line of your text file is “textfield=”.
Then you simply format your news.txt file using the guidlines here:
[http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/htmltext.htm](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/htmltext.htm)
The above code was written by “oldnewbie” of the [flashkit.com](http://flashkit.com) forums 🙂