# Need heklp URGENT, displaying "\<" character

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-heklp-urgent-displaying-character/312870
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 14, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-heklp-urgent-displaying-character/312870 "2010-08-14T14:15:28Z")
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### Author: ![newdevide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cab0a1/32.png) [@newdevide](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/newdevide)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-heklp-urgent-displaying-character/312870/1 "2010-08-14T14:15:28Z")

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Guys, im desperate here. How do i display “\<” wheteher through external text file or not.

I found out that you have to encode it to %3c, but somehow it still won’t display. I’m thinking maybe there’s a crash with the \<\> tag.  
But something is odd, if i used simple text it works, but if i used htmlText somehow it won’t work.

Anyone, HELP, please