It's a little ridiculous how long it took me to figure this out. I've been trying to layout a block of text in my Flex application and use simple html tags and get word wrapping to display properly. Searching the blogosphere wasn't turning up much solutions. Turns out it's actually rather simple to do but I'm a little surprised no posts or examples anywhere really spells it out.
<mx:Text condenseWhite="true" width="100%">The important thing in this example is condenseWhite="true" and width="100%". If you don't set condenseWhite to true then Flex will render line breaks and white space. If you don't declare the width then long lines will not automatically wrap.
<mx:htmlText><![CDATA[
This is some<br>
text with simple <b>Html Formatting</b>. And this is a really really
really long line of text which we would want to auto wrap nicely.
]]></mx:htmlText>
</Text>
Believe it or not it took me several hours to figure this out. That probably doesn't say much for my own programming skills. Hopefully this post will save other people from waisting time.
Yay, that did the trick. Thanks!
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It would have taken a long time to figure this out. Thanks for posting this.
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