i absolutely can not stand formating text in Flex! It get's in the way.

We have this project that we were eventually able to style using the styleName prop. However, if i try to add a <font> tag to change color or anything, it creates a line break...this is true with <p> and <li> tags....what gives?

We have tried to use css (as you would in flash) but it created blank text boxes....flex insists on embedding font with its:
@font-face
{
src:url('fnt/Fonts.swf');
font-family:'font1';
}
so, it wins, and we now have textfields with stylenames...sometimes we can use a font tag, most times not...anythoughts?