# HTML textfield not rendering \<p\>

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-textfield-not-rendering-p/266613>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 22, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-textfield-not-rendering-p/266613 "2008-07-22T17:29:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thinker2501](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Thinker2501](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Thinker2501)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-textfield-not-rendering-p/266613/1 "2008-07-22T17:29:41Z")

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I have a text field with htmlText that is correctly parsing \<br\> and \<img\> tags, but not \<p\>. I looked in the live docs and \<p\> is a supported tag. Any suggestions? Have been using \<br\>\<br\> to break a paragraph, obviously that is sloppy.