That did it!

You would not believe how much this problem has been plaguing me over the last 2 weeks.  I just could not find a solution no matter where I looked.

However big or small… thank you, thank you, thank you.

<pre>
import flash.text.*
import net.blog2t.text.*;

a.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT
b.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT
c.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT
d.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT

var ac:FixedTextField = new FixedTextField(a);
var bc:FixedTextField = new FixedTextField(b);
var cc:FixedTextField = new FixedTextField(c);
var dc:FixedTextField = new FixedTextField(d);

addChild(ac);
addChild(bc);
addChild(cc);
addChild(dc);

var styles = new StyleSheet();
styles.setStyle(“p”, {kerning: false, letterSpacing: 0, color: ‘#CCCCCC’})
styles.setStyle(“a”, {textDecoration: ‘underline’, kerning: false, letterSpacing: 0, color: ‘#FFFFFF’} );
ac.styleSheet = styles
bc.styleSheet = styles

ac.htmlText = bc.htmlText = cc.htmlText = dc.htmlText = “<p>This top line is necessary to push the content down because that matters somehow in this simple example of <a href=\”http://google.com\”>Quirky</a> text in Flash.</p>”
</pre>

Voila!