ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

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Appendix E: HTML Support in Text Fields

Entity Support

Flash HTML text fields also support the special character entities listed in Table E-1.

Wherever an entity appears in a text field’s

TextField.htmlText property, Flash dis-

plays the corresponding character on screen. However, other common entities, such

as

©, and numeric entities, such as ™ (trademark symbol), are not sup-

ported. To include characters such as the copyright symbol, the trademark symbol,

or the euro, use Unicode-format text files, a Unicode escape sequence, or the String.

fromCharCode() method (see “Character Encoding” in Chapter 4). The following

example shows how to include a euro symbol in an HTML text field:

this.createTextField("price_txt", 0, 100, 100, 200, 30);

price_txt.html = true;

// The euro is represented by the escape sequence \u20AC

price_txt.htmlText = "<B>FINAL COST:</B> \u20AC 200";

Quoting Attribute Values

Outside of Flash, HTML attribute values can be quoted with single quotes, double

quotes, or no quotes at all. The following tags are all valid in most web browsers:

<P ALIGN=RIGHT>

<P ALIGN='RIGHT'>

<P ALIGN="RIGHT">

But in Flash, unquoted attribute values are not allowed. For example, the syntax

<P ALIGN=RIGHT> is illegal in Flash. However, both single and double quotes can be

used to ...