Guessing you can't target FP 10.. I built a column text component with pagination once upon a time, and the easiest way I found to do it was to create the full text off-screen in one text field that has your required width, then grab one line at a time from the off-screen text field and add it to the on-screen text until you run out of lines available on-screen, checking to see what HTML tags were open/closed each line. It worked, it was fairly speedy, but I was also never fully happy with the HTML rendering -- I was pretty much confined to links, bold, italic and underline, and splitting those across page boundaries was a pain.
I'm sure someone here smarter than me has a better method, but there's mine. Either way, would be much easier to target FP 10 and use the new text controls, build wrapping columns and just show one column at a time. Jer _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders