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Asked: 2026-05-10T17:36:14+00:00

I know this sounds like a really obvious question, but it’s proving harder to

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I know this sounds like a really obvious question, but it’s proving harder to figure out than I thought. I’m developing in Flash 8/ActionScript 2.0.

I have a label component, and I’m dynamically assigning it text from an xml document. For example:

label.text = '<b>' + xml_node.firstChild + '</b>';

This successfully changes the label’s text to whatever is in that XML node, and since I enabled HTML, it makes it bold. However, I want to increase the size of the label’s font, and using <font> tags won’t work.

Am I missing something? How do I make the font larger? ActionScript is just so picky!

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  1. Thanks for everyone’s input! After reading David Arno’s post, I figured it out. Here’s what I was doing.

    label.text = '<b><font size=24>' + xml_node.firstChild + '</font></b>';

    Here’s what works:

    //note the 'single quotes' around the 24 label.text = '<b><font size='24'>' + xml_node.firstChild + '</font></b>';

    I just tried different ways of typing 24 in there, and the single quotes worked. Also, don’t forget to set HTML to true from the label’s Parameters tab.

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