Is is possible to embed HTML in flash?

[nutcake]

Hello

I need to stick a table with some text and pictures into a movie clip in flash. Does anyone know the best way to do this. Could I somehow embed an HTML file within the MC?

James

[Cota]

You can use very basic HTML inside flash text boxes. Check the little box that says render as HTML in the text box property window. Remember, it only supports very basic HTML.

[petefs]

Unfortunately the table tags are not some of those very basic tags : )

You'll need to create your own flash-based alternative for handling the table. There may be something like that available at http://proto.layer51.com/ -- but I can't be sure ^_^ Good luck!

[Cota]

I wasnt sure which tags were and werent supported. There are lots of goodies at layer51, I mean lots of them.

[petefs]

heh, they're pretty much limited to things that were formerly supported by just using setTextFormat : ) you could with minimal effort parse the html tags yourself and use setTextFormat and just ignore .htmlText alltogether : ) pretty much the only big advance with htmlText is the anchor tag support and the img tag support, which you'd have to get slightly trickier to make transparent ^_^

[CyanBlue]

Here... I think it still applies to FMX... No clue on FMX 2004 though...

Using HTML text formatting in Flash 5
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/htmltext.htm

[farafiro]

but also as petefs said, no tag tables
it only supports HTML v.1

[nutcake]

Thanks all for your help! I think I'm going to try for petefs's suggestion.