MX2004-Text Area component HTML tag freaking dynamically created string out.

Hi,

I am using a text area component in MX2004 to print out a line of text one letter at a time.

I had the whole thing working great, but wanted to put some HTML formatting into it, so added the line of code to enable HTML in the field into which I was typing. Now when I I test the movie each letter appears on a separate line so you will get something like:

S
h
e

s
e
l
l
s

Can anyone offer me any help on this.

Code set out below.

Fla attached.

code:

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holdEm_str = "She sells sea shells on the sea shore";

_root.past_txt.html = true;

counter = holdEm_str.length;

down = 0;

function addLetter() {

	if (down<counter) {

		_root.past_txt.text += holdEm_str.slice(down, down+1);

		down++;

		past.focusTextField.scroll = past_txt.focusTextField.bottomScroll;

	} else {

		clearInterval(letterTime);

	}

}

var letterTime = setInterval(addLetter, 45);

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Code:

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holdEm_str = "She sells sea shells on the sea shore";
_root.past_txt.html = true;
counter = holdEm_str.length;
down = 0;
function addLetter() {
        if (down < counter) {
                _root.past_txt.text = holdEm_str.slice(0, down + 1);
                down++;
                _root.past_txt.focusTextField.scroll = _root.past_txt.focusTextField.bottomScroll;
        } else {
                clearInterval(letterTime);
        }
}
var letterTime = setInterval(addLetter, 45);

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Again I fall at you feet dawsonk!

I'm not too sure what is happening there, but would imagine that rather than adding each individual letter you are now adding the entire string + the new letter.

Hopefully that should be it for the dynamic text part of the project I am working on so I shouldn't have to pull on your apron strings again this week, but again thank you for you help with the two problems I have had.