# htmlText property just isn't working for me
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**Created:** [October 29, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/htmltext-property-just-isnt-working-for-me/205398 "2006-10-29T03:24:48Z")\
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**Author:**  [@anif](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/anif)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/htmltext-property-just-isnt-working-for-me/205398/1 "2006-10-29T03:24:48Z")
Hi
I have read so many tutorials on embedding htmltext, but everytime I try it, it just isn’t working for me, and I don’t know why?
I have a textfield on stage, and I gave it an instance name “iText”. I even turrned on the “Render As HTML text” Icon and embeded the font that I used. Then in my actionscript on the keyframe I wrote:
iText.html = true;
iText.embedFonts = true;
iText.htmlText = “\WORKS!!!\”
when I preview this, nothing show inside the text field, this is mind boggling, and I’m yet to know what is wrong here. I use Flash 8 by the way. The really strange thing is that when I do:
iText.htmlText = “WORKS!!!”
the text shows up, but just with no html format, since I removed the bold tags, so something is wrong along the lines of those tags or something else I am not aware of.