Numbered list in HTML??

[flashpipe]

Is there any way to do/fake a numbered list, <ol>, in a flash HTML text field??

Thanks!!

[flashpipe]

Here's what I've got so far as far as an AS workaround...not working quite right because it either doens't keep the HTML formatting, or it displays the HTML tags in the field...

Any ideas??

[creatify]

Have you tried using css? I'm fairly sure <li> is supported in html textFields, but I don't kow that <ol> is - unless I'm wrong?

Any how, using CSS, you can use textIndent and left/right margins along w/ an incremented number var to add numbers to your list. Does this all kinda make sense?

[flashpipe]

Makes sense, thanks! Not sure how CSS would work since the problem is that the flash HTML doesn't support the <ol> tag. I think I almost need to parse the HTML and then replace <li> tags with numbers, but I'm not sure how I can distinguish between and <ol> and <ul> since flash won't even read those...

THanks!!

[flashpipe]

This is coming along. I think I've got a good chunk of this working, but I can't figure out how to retain the HTML formatting of the pre and post selections.

For example, if you enter 5 lines, bold the first line and make the last line an UL and then select the 3 middle lines and make that an OL, all the other formatting is removed...

Not sure how to either set the selBegin and selEnd of the htmlText or how to keep the HTML formatting of the pre and post selections...

Any ideas??? See the attached fla to see it working so far...

THANKS!!!!

[flashpipe]

WOOHOO!!

replaceText seems to be the answer to preserve the formatting...

Here it is! I've got to tweak the turning off a bit, but I think this is pretty close. If anyone else finds bugs or something that doesn't work, let me know!!

Thanks!!!

[oldgreymare]

Hey...that is cool! Works great.