Please PLEASE help! HTML in dyn textbox

OK, I have a dynamic text box:
instance name: bodytext
var name: text

I want to add text in actionscript. It works normally like this:
bodytext.text = “text here”;

But with a long piece of text I want to add linebreaks.
I think this will only work if I render as HTML. So now I press the ‘render as HTML’ button in the properties panel. Then I change the following:
bodytext.htmlText = “text here<br> more text here”;

and it doesn’t work! I have tried everything:

bodytext.text = “text here<br> more text here”;

bodytext.html = true;
bodytext.htmlText = “text here<br> more text here”;

It just doesn’t show any text now!
HELP!!!
How do I add just hard returns between my lines???

THANK YOU!