Specifying special characters in the text Property
The following rules specify how to include special characters inTextProperty of a text control mxml tag, either in a property assignment, suchTEXT = "the text", Or in the body of<Mx: Text>Subtag.
In standard text
The following rules determine how you use special characters if you do not use a CDATA section:
- to use the special characters left angle bracket (<), right angle bracket (>), and ampersand (&), insert the XML character entity equivalents of & lt;, & gt; , and & amp ;, respectively. you can also use & quot; and & apos; for double-quotation marks (") and single-quotation marks ('), and you can use numeric character references, such as & #165 For the yen mark (¥) . do not use any other named character entities; flex treats them as literal text.
- you cannot use the character that encloses the property text string inside the string. if you surround the string in double-quotation marks ("), use the escape sequence \" for any double-quotation marks in the string. if you surround the string in single-quotation marks (') use the escape sequence \' for any single-quotation marks in the string. you can use single-quotation marks inside a string that is surrounded in double-quotation marks, and double-quotation marks inside a string that is surrounded in single-quotation marks.
- flex text controls ignore escape characters such as \ t or \ n in the text property. they ignore or convert to spaces, tabs and line breaks, depending on whether you are specifying a property assignment or an subtag. to include line breaks, put the text in a CDATA section. in the text Control text = " string " attribute specifications, you can also specify them as numeric character entities, such as & #013; for a return character or & #009; for a Tab character, but you cannot do this in an subtag.
