Wednesday 2009/01/21
5:15 PM
Categories: Flash/Actionscript
This is probably obvious to most, but it caused enough of a headache that I’m writing to remind myself down the line: when assigning strings containing <br/> tags remember to set the TextField’s multiline property to true. Otherwise it will happily ignore the HTML line break.
Good to know.
Also, you are required to set the multiline property to true BEFORE assigning the htmlText property.
This works….
myTextField.multiline = true;
myTextField.htmlText = “Mytest”;
This doesn’t….
myTextField.htmlText = “Mytest”;
myTextField.multiline = true;
Good point, Jesse. As a rule I tend to set all properties on the text field before assigning to text/htmlText.
