htmlText wont display

G'Day all,
I'm loading dynamic text from a database but I'm adding html tags to it as I load it. The problem is that I can see the text in my text area if I write:
text = _root.text;
However I can't see it if I write:
htmlText = _root.text;
Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong because it is very frustrating.

Hi,

it looks like you're not using it properly.

Let's say you read the html text into a var called inputHTML and you want it to display in a TextField call myText, you would set the text field to render html in the properties panel, and would do something like this:

Code:

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inputHTML = "This <a href=\"test.htm\">here</a> is a link.<br><br>But don't click it!";

myText.htmlText = inputHTML;

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Hope this helps.

Dan.

Ammendment:

The link in the code above uses a standard anchor href tag - I just couldn't get it to display properly.

Thanks that is exactly what I'm doing! I think I've narrowed my problem down to the ASP I'm using so I'll attack that instead.