AS3 :: Flash - HtmlText Is Rearranging Font Tags By Itself
Feb 27, 2012
I have the following code in AS3:
var str:String = '<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="12" COLOR="#000000" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0">Lo<FONT COLOR="#0000FF">re<FONT FACE="GG Superscript">m</FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="GG Superscript"> Ip</FONT><FONT COLOR="#990000"><FONT FACE="GG
[Code]....
It seems htmlText is rearranging the html tags. Even though the output is the same, I need the original html back since I am making a text editor and the AFTER htmlText is messing up my tag calculations.
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Jan 16, 2012
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Feb 1, 2011
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Feb 15, 2009
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Nov 21, 2011
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So this only happens with text fields that are set directly on the stage at author time. Not text fields that are dynamically created through code. While yes, creating them through code is an awesome solution sometimes that's not really an option for me.
Code:
import flash.text.*;
// txt is a text field created on the stage with it's font set to "Verdana"
[code]......
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I've got a dynamic textfield(inside a movieclip) in my project that loads XML text which includes HTML tags like bold.
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HTML Code:
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I have been trying to figure out how you could add in custom attribute tags that flash can recover.
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4. Outputs into a textfield a generated HTML tag that a user can post on myspace and such so that it will load in the flash movie.
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