How to Use HTML tags in flash texts

Topic: Flash, Graphic & Design Product: Adobe Flash Professional CS4 Related Articles: easytrieve examples html bold tags notebook++ tags bold notepad++

When you are editing flash texts, you can use HTML tags to format texts. Here we will show you how to use HTML tags in flash texts.

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Solution

Run Adobe Flash Professional CS4 and create a fla file.
Create a dynamic text field, and enter myText as its instance name.
Select the text field, set it as Multiline in the properties panel and click the to render texts as HTML.
Before the next step, let's consider some important point.
Not all the HTML tags are supported by Adobe Flash Player. The supported HTML tags are: anchor tag, bold tag, break tag, font tag, image tag, italic tag, list item tag, paragraph tag, span tag.
Let's continue our job. Create a notepad and named it "myHTML.txt", write the following codes into notepad.
myHTMLdata=This is a bold textAnd this text is in ItalicThis is a <a href="http://www.recipester.org">link</a> to the bbc website. Here is a little list of colors : <li>Red</li><li>Green</li><li>Blue</li>
Click Window in the menu bar and select "Actions" to open the Actions panel. Write the following code on the first frame of the main timeline.
myLoadVars = new LoadVars();
myLoadVars.onLoad = function() {
myText.htmlText = myLoadVars.myHTMLdata;
}
Above are some examples of HTML tags, you can use others you like.

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