# Load Pre-formatted HTML into a textfield?
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**Created:** [February 13, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-pre-formatted-html-into-a-textfield/178736 "2006-02-13T20:50:54Z")\
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**Author:**  [@CEOofAEP](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/CEOofAEP)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-pre-formatted-html-into-a-textfield/178736/1 "2006-02-13T20:50:54Z")
Greetings.
I know it’s possible and I kind of got it to work- but this is a bit tricky…
I have pre-formatted HTML in a textfile. Let me know if any of this might already be an error-source- I am currently too tired to try out alternatives:
the textfile looks something like this:
```auto
Alot of text
Even MORE Text
```
it’s saved as a “.txt”-file… I didn’t think that would really make a difference?
What I want to do is load the file and dump it directly to an HTML-enabled textfield, using something like
```auto
if (loaded) {
TickerData_txt.htmlText = this;
}
```
in the function connected to the “onLoad”.
If I use “LoadVars” as a handler to load the file, it gives me the raw data, something like “%3Cp%3E%3Cimg%20src=%27biathlon%27%20vspace%3D%272%27…” (you get the idea)…
If I use an XML handler, it only gives me the first entry when I use “this” to send the file’s content to the htmlText-field… probably because each entry in the file is enclosed by “\”-tags and the XML-handler considers the file to be over once the first closing “\” occures?
What would need to be added to the file to make it load it all? Or what would I need to change about the function to make sure it sends the whole content of the file?
When I use “trace” on the “this” that is loaded, it actually _does_ give back only what it also sends to the textfield, even though the text-file contains several rows of that stuff.
Your help is very appreciated.
Thanks! 😃