Using Accordion Style text inside Flash

Looking for some ideas on how I could have text object with a link inside to display the information below the link still inside the text object. My thoughts were to use an html file inside the text object and have links that would display an accordion like text below the link. Before I start venturing in this direction, thought there may be a better approach?
Basic concept: Paragraph of text, inside the paragraph a link. When clicked the additional text appears below the link and the rest of the text pushes down, musch like an accordion style panel.
Look inside SPRY and there is nothing there.
Any ideas?
THANKS

That's because it's probably stripping the characters it doesn't like, such as HTML and formatting. Your best strategy at that point is to convert it before you send it through your script so your script tolerates it. You can try the encode() function run on your string which will URL encode it and the decode() function can restore it. Otherwise you need to replace anything your script doesn't like with something else intentionally. e.g. turn italics into [i]italics[/i] and then later fix it.
I myself would look at what PHP is doing. Chances are it's running the striptags function. It's just a safety measure to stop SQL injections (make code safer). But that may not be what you want. If you're at all uncomfortable with that, you'd best not do it though. You take the risk someone will sneak something in that you do not want.

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Revision: 3148
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-09-08 15:01:15 -0700 (Mon, 08 Sep 2008)
Log Message:
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