What HTML is permitted within Flash text fields.

Question

Hi,

Could someone clarify for me what input Flash accepts for its text fields?

I am tasked with managing a content management system, this then generates XML which power's flash sites. I have nothing to do with Flash. I work with PHP. Currently we use a rather temperamental Flash Text Editor which is prone to all sorts of troubles.

I tried to plug-in tinyMce but it broke the Flash templates. I then recently spoke to someone who said that flash should take any HTML. Now I am confused as this would point to a dodgy template.

Can someone clarify. Do Flash text fields handle all HTML or just a limited subset of HTML. If it is the latter, what happens if it comes across a tag it doesn't recognise? Does it display the tag or break?

Thanks,

Jason

Answer 1

see this page for a list, but be warned, some things (br, p in particular) might not function exactly the way you think. for example i had an issue where an img with a br after it did not move the next line of text down correctly, it floated it on the right of the text instead.

edit: also be aware that if you allow bold and italics tags and you're using an embedded font, then you'll need to embed the bold and italic forms too.