# Loading External data

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-data/47636
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 5, 2004, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-data/47636 "2004-04-05T23:48:45Z")
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### Author: ![cki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@cki](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cki)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2004, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-data/47636/1 "2004-04-05T23:48:45Z")

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Hi,

In the following example can you explain why loading the text with button event handler is treated like HTML.

[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/multiple\_dynamictext.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/multiple_dynamictext.htm)

[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/multiple\_dynamictext.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/multiple_dynamictext.htm)

And in the latter tutorial the text is treated like a variable, which I understand. Is it possilbe to alter the fomer tutorial to load the data as a variable and not HTML?