Since you are not closing the <a> tags, it looks like the </b> closing tag is not getting recognized. Just add </a> and it works fine:
<![CDATA[ <b><a href="event:1">One</a></b><a href="event:2"> Two<a href="event:2"> Two ]]> -TH --- In [email protected], "greenfishinwater" <greenfishinwa...@...> wrote: > > I am using Flex 3 and have a Text compnent using htmlText. I am using the tags <a> and <b>, what I have noticed is that if I use <b> before <a> then all the following text is in Bold, even though I use </b> to end Bold. > > This is an example of the code I am using showing the difference. Why? > > <mx:Text width="100%" y="250"> > <mx:htmlText> > <![CDATA[ > <b><a href="event:1">One</b><a href="event:2"> Two<a href="event:2"> Two > ]]> > </mx:htmlText> > </mx:Text> > > <mx:Text width="100%" y="350"> > <mx:htmlText> > <![CDATA[ > <a href="event:1"><b>One</b><a href="event:2"> Two<a href="event:2"> Two > ]]> > </mx:htmlText> > </mx:Text> >
