# Stupid question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stupid-question/9446>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [December 11, 2002, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stupid-question/9446 "2002-12-11T22:43:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![shuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@shuga](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/shuga)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stupid-question/9446/1 "2002-12-11T22:43:07Z")

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i’ve seen this on this board 100+ times but for some reason the answer is slipping my mind and i don’t see it in the tuts section

i have a dynamic text box with text loaded from an external .txt file and i want to put html tags into it

here is the code i have

```auto

loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load("assets/about.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function() {
		scroller.text = this.about;
};

```

what line do i add to it so that it will display the html as html and not show the lil brackets \< \>

i have the box checked in flash that says render as html

thanks for your help

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stupid-question/9446/2 "2002-12-11T23:00:47Z")

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```auto
loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load("assets/about.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function() {
                scroller.html = true;
		scroller.htmlText = this.about;
};

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stupid-question/9446/3 "2002-12-11T23:02:10Z")

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thanks beta! =)