# Loading External Text and CSS Displays Quirks

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-text-and-css-displays-quirks/181155>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 6, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-text-and-css-displays-quirks/181155 "2006-03-06T23:08:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![xpeters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ccd318/32.png) [@xpeters](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/xpeters)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-external-text-and-css-displays-quirks/181155/1 "2006-03-06T23:08:48Z")

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Using the ideas presented in the [kirupa.com](http://kirupa.com) FlashMX 2004 tutorial entitled “Applying CSS to Externally Loaded Text”, I have created a banner ad that pulls the text data from a file.

Sometimes this banner ad will load and will show the unformatted text, including the span tags that are being used to wrap the inline class styles around the text.

Further, I have modified this script to not be random, but to always show the same text.

Has anyone noted this quirk?