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**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [March 18, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-tags-in-txt-files/15830 "2003-03-18T14:58:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:**  [@p13](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/p13)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-tags-in-txt-files/15830/1 "2003-03-18T14:58:19Z")
I’m loading external .txt files into scrolling text boxes and would like to know if I can have html links (urls and email) and html text formatting (bold, italic, etc…) in the .txt files. I tried adding the tags in the .txt files but it didn’t work… Any ideas?
Thanks in advance…
-P.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-tags-in-txt-files/15830/2 "2003-03-18T16:15:21Z")
Have you made sure that you have enabled html for your text box in the properties inspector? It’s the little \<\> button. 🙂
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-tags-in-txt-files/15830/3 "2003-03-18T16:27:45Z")
Yeah, I tried that, it didn’t work. If I enter a mailto tag for email for example, I see the tag and not a link.
Thanks for the suggestion though… 😏
-P.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-tags-in-txt-files/15830/4 "2003-03-18T18:02:06Z")
You have to html enable your text box, and then tell it to read htmlText instead of just text.
Sooo…
yourTextBox.html = true
That sets it to true…
And…
yourTextBox.htmlText = variableNameHere
(that should replace yourTextBox.text = variableNameHere)
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-tags-in-txt-files/15830/5 "2003-03-18T18:21:40Z")
Great! That worked… Thanks a lot! :beam:
-P.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-tags-in-txt-files/15830/6 "2003-03-18T18:22:47Z")
No problem 🙂