text ALMOST loading correctly

thanks kglad- you're always a great help!

In the end , i got fed up, and started over...rather than first coding the background fill/ image and all the fancy stuff, i started with creating the text box in an empty mc (as a seperate function, and then i worked around that....it looks like this (edited)

function addTxBox() {
txField = mcFrame.createTextField("txField", holder.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, 0, bg._width, 150);
txField.wordWrap = true;
txField.setNewTextFormat(txStyle);
txField.autoSize = true;
txField.html = true;
txField.htmlText = entDate+"\n";
txField.htmlText += " >>> "+entTitle;
txField.htmlText += "\n"+entTx;
bg._height = txField.textHeight;
setOriginalProps();
}

and thanks for the clarity on multiline...i tried two versions: with and without multiline. The difference was immediate when in incoorporate "\n" . As you likely already know, without multiline, the txField does not read/utilize \n and there is no line break....that's a big difference!

that's wrong. it's also a dynamic textfield property.

if you're still having trouble post your code and show entryText.

tried that too...no luck (btw, can you confirm...i read that multiline is only for input text...or is that wrong??)

set txtField's multiline property to true.