# HTML Text and Textboxes

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-text-and-textboxes/238086>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 7, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-text-and-textboxes/238086 "2007-09-07T03:18:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![riveroaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@riveroaks](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/riveroaks)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-text-and-textboxes/238086/1 "2007-09-07T03:18:24Z")

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I’m reading text from a textfile that includes HTML and I’m using \<BR /\> for my line breaks…I also created a scrollbar for the textfield I’m putting this text in…

the textfield runs off of the .numLines property but I’m noticing that the textfield does not recognize \<BR /\> breaks as new lines in the .numLines property…only the number of actual lines in the txt file. Given that htmlText is already set to TRUE, how can I get the textfield to recognize my line break lines as text lines in .numLines?