# Issue with htmlText

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/issue-with-htmltext/191101
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 17, 2006, 5:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/issue-with-htmltext/191101 "2006-06-17T05:48:04Z")
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#### Post date: [June 17, 2006, 5:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/issue-with-htmltext/191101/1 "2006-06-17T05:48:04Z")

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Ok, So I made a text box and named it info.

Then the AS

```
ActionScript Code:
[FONT=Courier New][LEFT]info.[COLOR=#0000FF]html[/COLOR] = [COLOR=#000000] **true** [/COLOR];

```

info.[COLOR=#0000FF]htmlText[/COLOR] = [COLOR=#FF0000]"\<b\>Not\</b\> working!"[/COLOR]  
[/LEFT]  
[/FONT]

so…nothing happens…“Not” doesn’t even show up.

Something simmilar happend to me when I followed a flash guestbook tutorial somewhere, the guestbook tried to inset  
and such so the guestbook would seem formatted, but nothing happend

“Instead  
of  
this”

“I got this”

So…does anyone know what little error throws that off?

I’ve embedded uppercase, lowercase, num, and punc  
Arial  
11 pt bitmap

Thanx if you can help.  
:puzzled: