# Text does not render as html

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-does-not-render-as-html/157118>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 30, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-does-not-render-as-html/157118 "2005-07-30T00:53:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amy\_Saunders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Amy\_Saunders](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Amy_Saunders)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 12:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-does-not-render-as-html/157118/1 "2005-07-30T00:53:35Z")

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As the heading suggests, I am trying to have flash render my dynamic text as html and it refuses, it spits out: “This is \<b\> bold text \</b\>” showing the tags instead of actually making the text bold. I have tried setting it to render as html both by clicking the button and by typing it in script, and it still refuses. I have followed the most basic of online tutorials and yet it does not do it for me! Any help will be greatly appreciated!