# Render Text as HTML?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/render-text-as-html/1757
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 29, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/render-text-as-html/1757 "2002-05-29T23:44:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/render-text-as-html/1757/1 "2002-05-29T23:44:06Z")
Its not workin for me. is there soemthing I am missing? I have the button selected, but when I load it in I used the (u)whatever(/u) as an example, but I see “(u)whatever(/u)” in the text box.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2002, 12:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/render-text-as-html/1757/2 "2002-05-30T00:26:31Z")
```auto
text2.html = true;\r\rtext2.htmlText = " **this is bold text**";
```
Straight from the Flash Dictionnary.\r\r\rpom 0]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2002, 1:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/render-text-as-html/1757/3 "2002-05-30T01:06:54Z")
well I am loading in variables from a text file. and its not workin for me…