Crystal HTML Text Interpretation

Question

I have this information saved in my SQL database field varchar(max):
<span style="text-decoration: underline">This should be underline</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold">This should be bold</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic">This should be Italics</span>
When I add the field to Crystal and set the Text Interpretation to HTML. Crystal is ignoring the HTML Tags. The report is printing like this:
This should be underlineThis should be boldThis should be Italics
Its ignoring underline, bold, italic and <br> tag. I know crystal is limited to HTML tag interpration but I thought these tags are between the guidelines.
Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

it can't do style.
This is from the help file
The supported HTML tags are:
html
body
div (causes a paragraph break)
tr (causes only a paragraph break; does not preserve column structure of a table)
span
font
p (causes a paragraph break)
br (causes a paragraph break)
h1 (causes a paragraph break, makes the font bold & twice default size)
h2 (causes a paragraph break, makes the font bold & 1.5 times default size)
h3 (causes a paragraph break, makes the font bold & 9/8 default size)
h4 (causes a paragraph break, makes the font bold)
h5 (causes a paragraph break, makes the font bold & 5/6 default size)
h6 (causes a paragraph break, makes the font bold & 5/8 default size)
center
big (increases font size by 2 points)
small (decreases font size by 2 points if it's 8 points or larger)
b
i
s
strike
u
The supported attributes are:
align
face
size
color
style
font-family
font-size
font-style
font-weight