# Whitepsace in external text

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whitepsace-in-external-text/267064
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**Created:** [July 28, 2008, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whitepsace-in-external-text/267064 "2008-07-28T10:19:37Z")
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### Author: ![Alber\_Kidd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Alber\_Kidd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alber_Kidd)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2008, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/whitepsace-in-external-text/267064/1 "2008-07-28T10:19:37Z")

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Hi,

I am loading some external text into my textarea (HTML)

The problem is I am formatting the txt file like this

\<b\>this is my header\</b\>

This is my body text

My text area in flash puts a big space beween them unless I do this

\<b\>this is my header\</b\>\<br /\>This is my body text

This is ok but makes my external text files really herd to read. It there a way to strip out the white space?