Really simple text color question

I've got a dynamic text field that accepts HTML tags. Is there a way to indicate for part of the text to be a different color?

something like this:

Code:

---

[COLOR--SandyBrown]Menu:[/COLOR]
[COLOR--DarkOliveGreen]Fish and Chips[/COLOR]
[COLOR--DarkOrange]Boiled in oil and served on lettuce[/COLOR]

---

producing this result:

Menu:
Fish and Chips
Boiled in oil and served on lettuce

You use html coding, something like this;

<font color="#ff0000">Cherry Red</font>

I'm loading variables from an external file, and when I try this coding, I end up seeing it in the flash text box, even with HTML coding turned on. Is there a way to fix this? can you send a fla file example for me?

Thanks

htmlText must be turned on for it to work.