# HTML text formatting

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-text-formatting/158643
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**Created:** [August 10, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-text-formatting/158643 "2005-08-10T21:55:09Z")
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### Author: ![Search\_This\_com](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Search\_This\_com](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Search_This_com)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-text-formatting/158643/1 "2005-08-10T21:55:09Z")

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I have an XML file with this:

[size=2][/size][size=2][color=#0000ff]\<[/color][/size][size=2][color=#800000]LoginDesc[/color][/size][size=2][color=#0000ff]\>[/color][/size][size=2]View your [/size][size=2][color=#0000ff]\<[/color][/size][size=2][color=#800000]b[/color][/size][size=2][color=#0000ff]\>[/color][/size][size=2]promotions[/size][size=2][color=#0000ff]\</[/color][/size][size=2][color=#800000]b[/color][/size][size=2][color=#0000ff]\>[/color][/size][size=2], your total points earned and play games.[/size][size=2][color=#0000ff]\</[/color][/size][size=2][color=#800000]LoginDesc[/color][/size][size=2][color=#0000ff]\>[/color][/size]  
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[color=#0000ff]is there a way to have the Flash textfield understand some HTML formatting?[/color]  
[color=#0000ff]I thought there was?[/color]  
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