HTML tags in TLF (slice to 2 text fields)

I have this exact same problem and it is driving me UP THE WALL. It's should be so simple yet it just doesn't work.

Is it a bug?

If so, will it be fixed?

Here it is in more detail...

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/762325?tstart=0

This looks to me like a bug in TLFTextField. I'll report this bug to the Flash Authoring team.

You could use this as a workaround - find all of the containers that should be attached to the flow, set htmlText then reattach the containers (past the first):

var controllerArray:Array = new Array()
for (var i:int = 0; i < myText.textFlow.flowComposer.numControllers; i++)
{
     controllerArray = myText.textFlow.flowComposer.getControllerAt(i);
}
myText.htmlText = "some text that should be flowing into the other containers";
for (i = 1; i < controllerArray.length; i++)
{
     myText.textFlow.flowComposer.addController (controllerArray);
}
myText.textFlow.flowComposer.updateAllControllers();