# TextArea...extranious formating data

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-extranious-formating-data/177436>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 1, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-extranious-formating-data/177436 "2006-02-01T23:10:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![dragonfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e8cbc/32.png) [@dragonfly](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dragonfly)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-extranious-formating-data/177436/1 "2006-02-01T23:10:00Z")

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Hello, I made an app with Zinc that writes xml files to be used on a website, however, when i write to the file from the text inputed in to the TextField component by the user, it also writes a bunch of html formating into the file which i don’t need. It doesn’t break the app, but it makes a considerablely larger xml file.

Is there a way to not get this stuff printed into the file? I do need some html to be printed into the file, but only the html that I add in my app.

Thanks for any help on this and let me know if I haven’t explained it clearly.