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Learning ActionScript 2.0 in Adobe Flash > Working with Text and Strings > Using HTML-formatted text

Using HTML-formatted text

Flash Player supports a subset of standard HTML tags such as <p> and <li> that you can use to style text in any dynamic or input text field. Text fields in Flash Player 7 and later also support the <img> tag, which lets you embed image files (JPEG, GIF, PNG), SWF files, and movie clips in a text field. Flash Player automatically wraps text around images embedded in text fields in much the same way that a web browser wraps text around embedded images in an HTML page. For more information, see About embedding images, SWF files, and movie clips in text fields.

Flash Player also supports the <textformat> tag, which lets you apply paragraph formatting styles of the TextFormat class to HTML-enabled text fields. For more information, see Using the TextFormat class.

For more information on HTML-formatted text, see the following topics:

• Required properties and syntax for using HTML-formatted text
• About supported HTML tags
• About supported HTML entities
• About embedding images, SWF files, and movie clips in text fields

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