Flash Is Ignoring My Most Of My Tags In A Html Textfield

I've been trying to figure out for a while now. I usually manage to make my textFields work properly, but this is just driving me nuts. I have this TextField that I inject HTML for

Solution 1:

Ok to get this to work, I have used the following syntax:

<mx:Text><mx:htmlText>
        <![CDATA[<b>Some bold text </b>and some normal text <br/><u>This text is underlined</u> normal text to compare<br/><i/>This text is italic</i>]]>
    </mx:htmlText></mx:Text>

I didnt try including any of the extra script you have in your question, but it seems to handle the html tags ok like this.

Also here is the livedocs reference I used to check my syntax...

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=textcontrols_04.html

Looking back at your question I've just realised that you probably aren't using Flex, ok so this is Flex specific, sorry.