htmlText not working on TextField in a Class

[Bortiquai]

I have a simple class which contains a TextField. The textfield is populated with data from an XML file.

i am using the code:

txtField.htmlText = xmlElement.node.node.text();
txtField.setTextFormat(txtFmt);

If i don't use any HTML tags, it displays fine. But if I add tags, such as <a> or <b>, etc... the text within the tags does not display. For example, if in the XML text i have:

<node>For more information, <a href=' http://www.link.com'>Click Here</a> to see the information.
When I run the flash move, it displays:
For more informationto see the information.

If i remove the <a> tags, it displays fine.
Thanks

[Guest]

You could wrap your html in CDATA tags

[Colin Holgate]

Either write it in the xml as:

<node><![CDATA[<a href=' http://www.link.com'>Click Here</a> to see the information.]]></node>

or as:

<node>&lt;a href=' http://www.link.com'&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt; to see the information.</node>

[Bortiquai]

Thanks for replying - CDATA works perfect.