Can't get font styles to work

Another approach on anther font. I embedded two variations of the same font, 'regular' and 'bold'. Also gave them AS linkages. Then used this code:

Code:

this.createTextField("my_txt",1,10,10,400,200); my_txt.multiline = true; my_txt.html = true; my_txt.embedFonts = true; my_txt.htmlText = "This word is not BOLD";

Which partly works. The textfield gets the embedded font. I can tell by running the swf after deactivating the font in question. However, the word 'BOLD' isn't in bold. All characters are in regular style font.

I can also use this:

Code:

this.createTextField("my_txt",1,10,10,400,200); my_txt.multiline = true; my_txt.html = true; my_txt.embedFonts = true; my_txt.htmlText = "This word is not BOLD";

Which the same result. Only this time I'm sure it's using the AS Linkage name. But all characters still in regular style font. Deactivating the font still makes the text use it's embedded font.

Finally I tried the css way:

Code:

import TextField.StyleSheet; var myCSS:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet(); myCSS.setStyle("body",{fontSize:'45', fontFamily:'EuroComicRegular'}); myCSS.setStyle("vet",{fontSize:'15', fontFamily:'EuroComicBold'}); myHTML.styleSheet = myCSS; myHTML.html = true; myHTML.embedFonts = true; myHTML.htmlText = "<body>Is dit <vet>vette</vet> tekst?</body>";

Which works. If my text still contains tags I first have to replace them with my custom <vet> tags, but the result is that characters between <vet> are shown in bold.

Wondering though why the first two options - without css - don't work, since as far as I can tell I did everything 'by the book'. Embedded all variations of the font, embedded all glyphs, gave AS linkages. Shouldn't I then be able to use bold and italic tags on any html text? Can someone explain this to me?

Using CS6 for Mac by the way.