Unstable html with dynamic text

Hello, everyone.
I'm having problems getting the dynamic text function to read
an html text. I can get it to acknowledge and <a
href=> for links and underlining and even imbed images, but not
 for italics or for bold. I have the
"render text as html button selected," so I'm not sure why I'm
getting these mixed results.
Any ideas?

1. Be sure the html is not malformed. In Control->Test
Movie you can use
Debug->List Variables or Debug->List Objects and find
the text field where
you will see how the html is rendered in the htmlText
property. Then paste
that into an HTML validator to check for malformed HTML.
2. Be sure the html tags you are using are supported by the
Flash player
version you are publishing. For Flash 8 here is the link to
the
documentation:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00001459.html
3. Here is the general documentation link that will help you
adapt design
your use of HTML in text fields.
Lon Hosford
www.lonhosford.com
May many happy bits flow your way!
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Hello, everyone.
I'm having problems getting the dynamic text function to
read an html text.
I
can get it to acknowledge and <a href=> for
links and underlining and
even
imbed images, but not for italics or
 for bold. I have the
"render
text as html button selected," so I'm not sure why I'm
getting these mixed
results.
Any ideas?

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