# Making dynamic text boxes only display full words?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-dynamic-text-boxes-only-display-full-words/299745
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**Created:** [November 10, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-dynamic-text-boxes-only-display-full-words/299745 "2009-11-10T14:36:05Z")
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### Author: ![tommiwalsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@tommiwalsh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tommiwalsh)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-dynamic-text-boxes-only-display-full-words/299745/1 "2009-11-10T14:36:05Z")

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Is it possible to make dynamic text boxes display only full words from an xml feed? At the moment I have a selection of feeds that are supposed to run into each other, but if some of the text is longer than expected I get the first one or two characters of a word tagged on at the end. Is it possible to have the flash read whether it has character space left to display the next word in the xml?

I know it doesn’t really recognise spaces etc and just pulls in the info within the node, but maybe there’s a work-around if you want to do what I’m trying?