# HTML text tags

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-text-tags/235095>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 8, 2007, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-text-tags/235095 "2007-08-08T11:42:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![jimjiminyjimjim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@jimjiminyjimjim](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jimjiminyjimjim)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-text-tags/235095/1 "2007-08-08T11:42:20Z")

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I’m using HTML text formatting with a Textfield.

At the moment the \<u\> underline tag works fine but the \<b\> bold tags don’t work or the italics tag doesnt work either.

I read somewhere that a font with bold and italics needs to be “available”.

I’m just using a textfield with Arial as the font - which is embeded.

How do I make the bold and italics work?