yeah, that's cool...I'm not chastising you for your opinion, our needs are just different. I need some extensive formatting of text in Flash and it's supported poorly. Actually, my needs aren't even extensive, they are actually pretty basic (<p>, <span>, <ul>, <li>, and a couple others, along with the respective formatting of "padding", "margin", use of id's and classes would be nice)...not complicated stuff, very basic. You would think someone would've run into this problem, maybe Flex developers or something, and would've had to have written their own class to support CSS. Some text-heavy app.