# Oddness with \ and External Text
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oddness-with-p-and-external-text/204801
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [October 23, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oddness-with-p-and-external-text/204801 "2006-10-23T17:46:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@misterpatrick](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/misterpatrick)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oddness-with-p-and-external-text/204801/1 "2006-10-23T17:46:17Z")
Hello all,
I am having a problem with external text and style sheets. For some reason, when I end a paragraph with \ the text after that is cut off. The strange thing is, it works for some copy, generally the first \
TITLE
SUBHEAD
Body copy goes here.
List
One a
List Item
Two
List Item
```
So, if I add at \ to the end of \
Body copy goes here., everything else gets cut off. In fact, if I add a \ pretty much anywhere it will get cut off. So the question is, what is going on here. how can I control the CSS styles? Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Kraken](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kraken)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oddness-with-p-and-external-text/204801/2 "2006-10-23T18:09:05Z")
always close your tags. If you need extra space, use another br or keep condenseWhite = false for the textfield so your line returns are read.
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### Author:  [@misterpatrick](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/misterpatrick)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/oddness-with-p-and-external-text/204801/3 "2006-10-23T18:21:00Z")
Ahh, I think not having condenseWhite = false may be the problem. Let me take a look.