[AS3] htmlText not showing bold or italics font

Question

So I have a MovieClip asset with a dynamic textfield sitting inside of it. I export my .fla as a .swc to use within Flash Builder 4, and create instances of the asset with code, populating the text dynamically from XML.

My issue is that even though I have htmlText enabled, bold and italics tags don't appear to be working. I have a feeling it is because when I created the asset in Flash CS4, the text field makes you specify the font, and the subset of that to use (Regular, Bold, Oblique, etc).

Is there any way to get the htmlText to render bold and italics tags properly without having to completely rethink the way I'm creating all these fields?

Answer 1

Without seeing how you are formatting your htmlText, I am guessing that you are trying to use the

< bold > and < em > tags?

I had a lot of trouble with these myself. I solved the majority of issues by loading an external stylesheet and applying it to the htmlText TextField. However, there were times when I did not want to define an entire style for one or two instances of italic or bold text.

So, I found a simple solution by using the < span > tag and set the bold, or italics through the style property:

<span style="font-style:italic;">this is italic</span>

Hope this helps.