<br> in htmlText?

Hello, after searching for about an hour (and finding a lot of people asking the same question with no answers) I figured I’d ask. I hope its something dumb so you can tell me and call me a noob and I’ll be on my way.

I been doing more programming in other languages through the past two flash changes and am now using CS5 (and AS 2.0) for work. Tell me, why doesn’t this work:


this.createTextField("test",1,100,100,500,500);
test.html = true;
test.htmlText = "Hi<br><br>Hi";

No breaks show up - it appears as “HiHi”
I’ve tried <br /> and <BR> etc. embedFonts && regular.
Why?