Styling built-in HTML tags

Flash Player supports a subset of HTML tags. (For more information, see Using HTML-formatted text.) You can assign a CSS style to every instance of a built-in HTML tag that appears in a text field. For example, the following defines a style for the built-in <p> HTML tag. All instances of that tag will be styled in the manner specified by the style rule.

p {
  font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
  font-size: 12px;
  display: inline;
}

The following table shows which built-in HTML tags can be styled and how each style is applied:

Style name	How the style is applied
`p`	Affects all `<p>` tags.
`body`	Affects all `<body>` tags. The `p` style, if specified, takes precedence over the `body` style.
`li`	Affects all `<li>` bullet tags.
`a`	Affects all `<a>` anchor tags.
`a:link`	Affects all `<a>` anchor tags. This style is applied after any `a` style.
`a:hover`	Applied to an `<a>` anchor tag when the mouse is hovering over the link. This style is applied after any `a` and `a:link` style. Once the mouse moves off the link, the `a:hover` style is removed from the link.
`a:active`	Applied to an `<a>` anchor tag when the user clicks the link. This style is applied after any `a` and `a:link` style. Once the mouse button is released, the `a:active` style is removed from the link.

For more information on applying styles to HTML text, see An example of using styles with HTML.