You might have wondered how a textbox in flash can be formatted using HTML tags. This tutorial teaches you how to preserve rich text formatting in a flash textbox like font, font style, hyperlink, paragraph, and other text parameters, using the appropriate HTML tags.

Compatible Versions of Flash for this Tutorial

Flash MX 2004 & below | Flash 8 | Flash CS3 | Flash CS4
Note: For uses of lower versions of Flash some visual interface images would differ.
Recommended Version: Adobe Flash CS4 Professional

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Follow the steps given below:

Creating HTML Rendering Textboxes in Flash

The Dynamic and Input textboxes can be made HTML Rendering.
Create a Dynamic Textbox and select 'Render text as HTML" from the Properties inspector, don't forget to enter a variable name say, 'dyn_txt'.

To format the text in Bold/Italics, open Actions window (F9) and type the following code:

dyn_txt = "This text is in Bold ";
dyn_txt = "This text is in Italics";

Values can also be concatenated using '+' sign. Other HTML tags for Fonts can also be used with these Textboxes as shown below:

dyn_txt = "First line Text in Bold Red color";
dyn_txt += " 2nd line Text with font-size 20.";

Hyperlinks and Paragraphs can also be done as shown below:

dyn_txt=" Center aligned Paragraph Text in Italics
<a href='http://www.smartwebby.com'>Smartwebby.com</a> to visit the site";

Note: The Input text can also be rendered in HTML in a similar way by selecting the Input option from the Properties Inspector.

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