# htmlText won't display?
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**Created:** [April 30, 2005, 8:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/htmltext-wont-display/146351 "2005-04-30T08:08:18Z")\
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**Author:**  [@kathari](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kathari)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 8:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/htmltext-wont-display/146351/1 "2005-04-30T08:08:18Z")
Hi
I have a (maybe) strange question:
I don’t seem to be able to display htmlText. I have tried it both with externally loaded text and loadVars and directly in a textfield without anything extra except myTextfield.html = true; and myTextfield.htmlText = “Display this text”;
Everything displays fine as long as I use text and not htmlText. When tracing the externally loaded text it outputs the text with tags and everything but it doesn’t show in the textfield.
Could I have some sort of bug or could I have ruined something? Should I try reinstalling Flash? Or is there something I could be overlooking?
I have used htmlText before without problems with the same (installed) program, but it’s over a year ago.