Underline link from dynamic text

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I have a text box that will be updated by my client. I want them to be able to include links in their text, but I really don’t want to require my “not-so-computer-savy” client to have to remember to type this out everytime they need to add a link

<font color="#ff0000"><a href="http://cnn.com"><u>CNN</u></a></font>

is there a way to simplifying this, and still have flashMX recognize it?

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you could make up your own easy to remember tag, something like
<link><site>thedomainname</site>The Text</link>

myString = myString.split("<link>").join("<a").split("<site>").join(" href=“http://”).split("</site>").join(""><u>").split("</link>").join("</u></a>");
trace(myString);

And then do the little, split join, to make the proper tag for flash after the text has been loaded.
With that you could make up a tag for images or whatever and just replace the <site></site> with it and add a thing in the AS to parse it into the link properly. Anyway I think I am wandering now

Hope that helps,
Shawn

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ahh, great idea, I just needed to get pointed in the right direction.