# Percentage sign doesnt show up using TextArea?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/percentage-sign-doesnt-show-up-using-textarea/175591
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [January 16, 2006, 5:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/percentage-sign-doesnt-show-up-using-textarea/175591 "2006-01-16T05:54:40Z")
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### Author: ![s\_newave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@s\_newave](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/s_newave)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2006, 5:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/percentage-sign-doesnt-show-up-using-textarea/175591/1 "2006-01-16T05:54:40Z")

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Hi,

For some reason im having a problems getting percentage signs to show up when loading an external html file into a textarea using the loadVars method. Here is the code im using to get the text:

var myLV:LoadVars = new LoadVars();  
myLV.onLoad = function(success) {

if(success) {  
cContentArea.text = myLV.info;  
} else {  
cContentArea.text = “There has been an error loading the requested information. Please contact the Webmaster and report your error.”;  
}  
}

and the call:  
myLV.load(“vars/” + sectionName + “.html”);

A snippet of the text file looks like this:

info=\<span class=“header”\>Costs\</span\>\<br\>\<br\>  
\<span class=“bodytext”\>The following guide will give you general costs associated…  
\<br\>Typically 6% depending upon marketing…

The percentage sign just doesnt show up at all and the text is actually shifted one to the left. I tried setting condenseWhiteSpace to true and false with no luck. Anyone have any ideas this is driving me nuts?

thx