# Input fields interpreted as html, not just the value
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**Created:** [October 13, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-fields-interpreted-as-html-not-just-the-value/203739 "2006-10-13T16:48:27Z")\
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**Author:**  [@bcswebstudio](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bcswebstudio)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-fields-interpreted-as-html-not-just-the-value/203739/1 "2006-10-13T16:48:27Z")
Why is it that, and how can I prevent it, when by assigning a Variable name to a text object [Input Field], a trace of that corresponding variable spits out html including all formatting of the field??
This is especially frustrating b/c I followed the kirupa tutorial on creating an [HTTP-POST form in Flash](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/flash_php_email.htm) to learn the ropes.
Somewhere I read to use strip\_html() in the receiving php script, but that’s not the way I want to do it… I think there’s got to be a setting or parameter somewhere that’s eluding me.
Flash8, published to flash player 7,8, or 9.
thanks