# styleSheet v. defaultTextFormat: Why can't we all just get along?!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stylesheet-v-defaulttextformat-why-cant-we-all-just-get-along/256195>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 31, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stylesheet-v-defaulttextformat-why-cant-we-all-just-get-along/256195 "2008-03-31T19:09:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stickeroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Stickeroo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Stickeroo)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stylesheet-v-defaulttextformat-why-cant-we-all-just-get-along/256195/1 "2008-03-31T19:09:38Z")

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Here’s my dilemma: I have a few fonts embedded in my FLA; these fonts are linked and exported on frame 1. Within a pile of generated symbols, I have a textfield that uses (among other things, this:

```auto

var cssString:String="p {font-family:"+(new HNC().fontName)+"; font-size: 24px; color:#1A1A1A} b {font-family:"+(new HNMC().fontName)+"; font-size:48px; color:#FF0000}";
tabStyle=new StyleSheet();
tabStyle.parseCSS(cssString);

...

tabInstr=new TextField();

tabInstr.styleSheet=tabStyle;
tabInstr.embedFonts=true;
tabInstr.selectable=false;
tabInstr.multiline=true;
tabInstr.wordWrap=true;
tabInstr.htmlText=String(tabXML.instr);
tabInstr.antiAliasType=AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
tabInstr.autoSize=TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;

```

It displays all of the relevant text:

```auto
<p><b>Point of origin</b><br />Touch one of the available points of origin or touch "Other" to enter your own.</p>

```

but it only applies the \<p\> style: the bold text is painted with the same attributes as everything else. I tried ditching the \<p\> style altogether, but that just made the text fail to show up at all…What am I doing wrong?! Gah!!!

Edit: the thread title was from before I realized that stylesheets and textformats are sworn blood-enemies who hate each other a lot.