# "&" won't load in flash

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 8, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wont-load-in-flash/171850 "2005-12-08T18:47:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mabans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Mabans](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mabans)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wont-load-in-flash/171850/1 "2005-12-08T18:47:03Z")

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I creating a simple news ticker for flash MX (6) using an external text file. Everything works great except for a little hiccup I get whenever a title or headline has an “&” symbol. I know the “&” is used to break up from different items. Example:

Content=something goes here  
&else=Something else goes here.

Now if the & is in the news headline it screws it up. I tried using the & and have flash render it as HTML but the “&” before amp; screws that up as well. Now the reason the “&” is so important is because the identity of the company has that withing its name so using “and” isn’t an option. is there are work for this? Any help would be great