ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

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HTML Tag Support in Text Fields

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Web browser output:

I hate filling out forms.

So sometimes I don’t.

Closing

</P> tags are required by Flash in order for line breaks to be added. For

example:

<P> I hate filling out forms.</P> So sometimes I don't.

Furthermore, in Flash, <P> causes a single line break, exactly like <BR>, whereas in

web browsers,

<P> causes a double line break. Consider the following:

<P>This is line one.</P><P>This is line two.</P>

In Flash, this code is rendered with no gap between the lines, as in:

This is line one.

This is line two.

In a web browser, the code is rendered with a gap between the lines, as in:

This is line one.

This is line two.

Because Flash’s

<P> tag behavior differs from its behavior in web browsers, we often

use the

<BR> tag instead. However, the ALIGN attribute of the <P> tag is still useful to

center, right-justify, or left-justify text, as follows:

<P ALIGN="CENTER">Centered text</P>

<P ALIGN="RIGHT">Right-justified text</P>

<P ALIGN="LEFT">Left-justified text</P>

<BR> (Line Break)

The <BR> tag causes a line break in a body of text and is functionally equivalent to the

\n escape sequence or the newline keyword. Consider the following:

This is line one. <BR>This is line two.

This is line one. \nThis is line two.

Both are rendered in Flash as:

This is line one. ...