Using Type > Creating text boxes for user input or dynamically updating text > About preserving rich text formatting

Flash enables you to preserve rich text formatting in editable text boxes. You can select the HTML formatting option for dynamic or input text boxes in the Text Options panel. With the HTML option selected, basic text formatting (including font name, style, color, and size) and hyperlinks in the text box are preserved by automatically applying the corresponding HTML tags to the specified text box. The following HTML tags are supported in editable text boxes:

	<A>
	<B>
	<FONT COLOR>
	<FONT FACE>
	<FONT SIZE>
	<I>
	<P>
	<U>

You can also apply HTML tags to text boxes in the Actions panel, as part of the variable value for a text box. When you select the HTML formatting option in the Text Options panel, supported HTML tags that you applied in the Actions panel are preserved when you export the movie's SWF file.