# Loading plain text with leading whitespace

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-plain-text-with-leading-whitespace/296310>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 13, 2009, 7:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-plain-text-with-leading-whitespace/296310 "2009-09-13T07:29:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 7:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-plain-text-with-leading-whitespace/296310/1 "2009-09-13T07:29:20Z")

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When I try to load text from XML into a text field any leading line breaks or spaces are ignored. For example:

```auto
<text> some text</text>

```

The preceding loads into the text field without the leading spaces before “some text”. How can I force the spaces to appear?