i'm trying to create a list in an htmlText field using the <li /> tag. i have
two questions.
1. first of all whenever i do this sets the whole text field as a list (not
that big of a deal)
2. but whenever i do use that tag, whenever i change the contents of the
textField (within flash or loaded externally) it stays a list!!!

any help!?!?

what I can understand is that u r doing something like

var urText = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
_txt.htmlText = "<li>" + urText + "</li>" // where _txt is the instance name
of the textfield
so try to make a flag
var isList = true;
if(isList)
_txt.htmlText = "<li>" + urText + "</li>"
else
_txt.htmlText = urText

thanks. my problem is that i'm loading two different .html files into flash.
one contains a <li> tag the other doesn't. whenever i change the textfield to
display the .html file containing the <li> tag it converts the whole textfield
to a bulleted list. once that's executed i can't turn it off. here's some
sample code:

XML.prototype.ignoreWhite = true;

//...........loads two different html files
var h1:XML = new XML();
h1.load("h1.html"); // loads the file without the <li> tag

var h2:XML = new XML();
h2.load("h2.html"); // loads the file with the <li> tag


//..........changes the display
h1_btn.onRelease = function () {
display_txt.htmlText = h1; // displays the html files with their tags
}
h2_btn.onRelease = function () {
display_txt.htmlText = h2; // same
}

//.........toggles the html property on and off
toggle_btn.onRelease = function () {
if (!blah) {
display_txt.html = true;
blah = 1;
} else {
display_txt.html = false;
blah = 0;
}
}

once i display the h2.html file and display_txt.html property is set to true.
i cannot turn off the bulleted list! if i hardcode it, it does the same thing.
i don't know if that is too much or if it makes sense. thanks for your help.