A href link in dynamic text box

I think this is a relatively easy fix but I have looked around for the answer and have not been able to find it. I am using a dynamic scrollable html text box. I would like to add links. The only problem is that the double forward slashes (//) in http://www.whatever.com makes the following text become a commment.

I have a dynamic text box with an instance name of myText and in my AS layer I have:

myText.htmlText ="the text for this scrollable text box,
 which is html formatted";

If I try to add a html link, obviously it doesn’t work. Any suggestions?

The only workaround that I know of uses exteral .txt files. I would prefer to use those since I have not been able to get my scrolling bar with tweening to load properly with external .txt files. I have posted before for help for that problem but nobody ever responded. Hopefully there is an easy fix for this. It would help me out a lot. Thanks for taking the time to view