HTML Text in Flash

Flash Tutorial to display Text in HTML Format

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. You might be wondering how a textbox in flash can be formatted using HTML tags. It is very simple and can be done as shown below.

Note: Though this article is visualized with the Flash MX 2004 interface it also can be applied fully to Flash 5.

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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