# TextArea and text Formatting

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-and-text-formatting/266256>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 17, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-and-text-formatting/266256 "2008-07-17T19:43:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Irianna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Irianna](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Irianna)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-and-text-formatting/266256/1 "2008-07-17T19:43:40Z")

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Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone was able to help me.  
I’ve got an action set to pull some information up on screen from a file.

I’d like to find away to get the text to be White, Arial, Bold, and size 15… but i have no idea how! i’ve been trying to figure it out for over a week now and no luck at all. ☹

Is anyone able to help?

Below is my action.  
This is using ActionScript 3 in Flash CS3

Code:

```auto
var externalReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("SYM.txt");
var externalLoad:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
 
externalLoad.load(externalReq);
externalLoad.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, textReady);
 
function textReady(event:Event):void {
box1.text = event.target.data;
box1.setStyle("upSkin",Sprite);}

```

I look forward to your replies.

Many Thanks, Irianna