UIScrollBar Breaks CSS Formatting

[Alex Drinkwater, Goldsmiths College]

:confused;
Hi people. I'm trying to load some CSS-formatted HTML text into a text field
in Flash MX 2004. I've managed to assign the external stylesheet to the text
area using Actionscript, and get the text itself from an external file. The
text display fine. However, when I add a UIScrollBar component to the text
area, all the CSS text formatting disappears and the text reverts to default
settings.

Incidentally, I had to load the text into the text area, THEN use actionscript
to add the UIScrollBar in the next frame, otherwise the scrollbar wouldn't work
at all. Not sure if this has any bearing on my problem.

Anyone else come across this and know of a workaround?

Cheers,

Alex Drinkwater
Goldsmiths College London

[conquerors04]

Hey Alex,

I'm not sure why you need 2 frames. I hear you saying you loaded the data
into a text area? Is that a component Text Area or just a regular text field.
Try this and see if it works,

Only thing, remember to drag a copy of the TextArea component onto your stage
and delete it.
Also, if this works, you may ant to not use the text field unless you are
looking for a transparent background for the info. And there is a way around
that also.




createObject("TextArea", "field1_ta", 100);
with(field1_ta) {
setSize(200, 50);
_x = 0;
_y = 0;
html = true;
vScrollPolicy = "auto";
styleSheet = {your stylesheet};
text = {your CSS formatted text};
}