### Author:  [@thediablo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thediablo)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-text-style/19147/1 "2003-04-24T18:04:11Z")
well i read on how to make a dynamic menu with xml, but thats not what i wanna do and i cant get it to work with the AS to suit my needs.
so what i have is
```php
### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-text-style/19147/2 "2003-04-24T18:17:02Z")
```php
menuXml = new XML();
menuXml.ignoreWhite = true;
menuXml.onLoad = function() {
menuItem = this.firstChild.childNodes;
for (var i=0; i
### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-text-style/19147/3 "2003-04-25T14:30:24Z")
help me ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-text-style/19147/4 "2003-04-25T16:39:05Z")
[AS]item.itemLabel…html = true;
item.itemLabel.htmlText = menuItem\*.attributes.name;
item.myUrl.html = true;
item.myUrl.htmlText = menuItem\*.attributes.url;[/AS]
To be able to use font formatting tags like that you have to render the textboxes to read HTML (albeit limited font formatting HTML, but still HTML none the less).
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-text-style/19147/5 "2003-04-30T18:12:46Z")
THANKS Lost!
im understanding it better…
but i want to put the HTML tags in the AS, any example to get started?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-text-style/19147/6 "2003-04-30T18:21:35Z")
Why not just add it with your text in the XML file? It would be easier on you if thats the text you want to be effected by your font formatting HTML tags.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-text-style/19147/7 "2003-04-30T18:31:28Z")
but then i will have a big xml full of tags?
i want the AS To loop and loop and format each node itself.
what u think?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-text-style/19147/8 "2003-04-30T18:33:59Z")
Well then add the tags in the AS.
[AS]item.itemLabel.htmlText = “\”+menuItem\*.attributes.name;+"\"[/AS]
Something like that should work.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-text-style/19147/9 "2003-04-30T18:38:26Z")
nice.
gonna make some examples and see if it works
thanks man 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-text-style/19147/10 "2003-04-30T18:43:47Z")
Question though: If the entire text is those textboxes are all going to have the same format… why not just format it like that on the textbox itself through the properties?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-text-style/19147/11 "2003-04-30T18:52:25Z")
no that was an example
the text i want to put it in 1 textbox only and fill it automatically with the XML/AS so if i update something i just add nodes and text. and the AS does the text format.
and i wanna do it scrollable…
no problem with the things we got so far right?
thanks!
Be back tomorrow!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-text-style/19147/12 "2003-04-30T19:19:17Z")
Alright… I thought you were using seperate textboxes for each thing, in that case it would have been easier to format the textboxes manually, but since it is just one textbox, you can’t do that, so I understand now.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-text-style/19147/13 "2003-05-02T15:59:06Z")
almost there… i think
ok here is what i got.
```php
the AS.
menuXml = new XML();
menuXml.ignoreWhite = true;
menuXml.onLoad = function() {
menuItem = this.firstChild.childNodes;
for (var i=0; i
"+menuItem*.attributes.url;
}
}
menuXml.load("menu.xml");
```
```php
the XML FILE
```
is just an example file…
i got 1 Dynamic box, named itemClip in 1 frame with the AS in the frame.
when i run the test it displays the LastNode (last item on list) only.
why is that?
maybe the for loop is wrong? but it seems ok.
lil help almost there.