# .text to .htmlText

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-to-htmltext/210724
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [December 21, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-to-htmltext/210724 "2006-12-21T12:31:51Z")
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### Author: ![batchas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@batchas](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/batchas)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2006, 12:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-to-htmltext/210724/1 "2006-12-21T12:31:51Z")

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has anyone an idea how to do that:  
in a text input field called ‘myText’ i write ‘\<example\>’. now if i look at myText.htmlText, i will see: ‘\<example\>’  
i’m not able to write directly to myText.htmlText, so the question is, how to get e.g. ‘\<’ or ‘&’ instead of ‘\<’ or ‘&’ in my myText.htmlText while writing ditrectly in myText input text field? how to keep the html entities intact while writing in a text field in flash???