# Underlining in dynamic text boxes

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/underlining-in-dynamic-text-boxes/27606>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 4, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/underlining-in-dynamic-text-boxes/27606 "2003-08-04T18:08:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![grandsp5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@grandsp5](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/grandsp5)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/underlining-in-dynamic-text-boxes/27606/1 "2003-08-04T18:08:27Z")

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Can you underline inside a dynamic text box? If so how. It only lets me bold or italicize

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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:** [August 4, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/underlining-in-dynamic-text-boxes/27606/2 "2003-08-04T18:19:30Z")

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inside your code, where is the data coming from?

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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:** [August 4, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/underlining-in-dynamic-text-boxes/27606/3 "2003-08-04T18:32:03Z")

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an external text file. Do i just make a textformat object? The thing is I only want to underline a couple of phrases not the entire thing

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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:** [August 4, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/underlining-in-dynamic-text-boxes/27606/4 "2003-08-04T18:44:27Z")

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Use[AS]myTextField.html = true;[/AS]And in your textfile use the tag \< **u\>text goes here\<** /u\>

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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:** [August 8, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/underlining-in-dynamic-text-boxes/27606/5 "2003-08-08T18:49:43Z")

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Ok so if i import it externally from notepad, i would just do the formatting there. \<\*\*u\> \<\*\*b\> etc right?