# Please PLEASE help! HTML in dyn textbox

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**Created:** [January 4, 2004, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-please-help-html-in-dyn-textbox/39212 "2004-01-04T22:48:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-please-help-html-in-dyn-textbox/39212/1 "2004-01-04T22:48:29Z")

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OK, I have a dynamic text box:  
instance name: bodytext  
var name: text

I want to add text in actionscript. It works normally like this:  
bodytext.text = “text here”;

But with a long piece of text I want to add linebreaks.  
I think this will only work if I render as HTML. So now I press the ‘render as HTML’ button in the properties panel. Then I change the following:  
bodytext.htmlText = “text here\<br\> more text here”;

and it doesn’t work! I have tried everything:

bodytext.text = “text here\<br\> more text here”;

bodytext.html = true;  
bodytext.htmlText = “text here\<br\> more text here”;

It just doesn’t show any text now!  
HELP!!!  
How do I add just hard returns between my lines???

THANK YOU!