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In the project I’m currently working on, I found that HTML links in textfields weren’t properly executing, although the text seemed to be rendered properly. My mouse cursor even changed to a hand cursor on rollover of the link within the text, but I could only actually ópen the link through the context menu that popped up after a control-click (or right click for the PC user).
After some searching, I found the simple answer to my problem on the Flex Examples blog: in order for the HTML link to be properly executed, the ’selectable’ property of the containing TextField must be set to ‘true’! If the text is not selectable, your HTML link won’t automatically be opened on click. Way to go Adobe!