When Flash Player 7 was introduced, Macromedia added some very powerful features into their TextField object. Most notably, the ability to display a lot of HTML formatted text, including images. And you can even use Cascading Style Sheets!

Flash supports a subset of HTML syntax, including the following:

• Anchor (links)
• Bold
• Break
• Font
• Image
• Italic
• List Item
• Paragraph
• Span
• Text Format
• Underline

To enable HTML text formatting in your TextField, you can just select the "Tag Button" on the Properties inspector window, shown here:

Or if you have given your TextField an instance name ('myTextBox' in the above image), or if you used Actionscript to generate your TextField (so that it already has an instance name), then you can turn on the ability to display HTML tags like this:


myTextBox.html=true;