[flexcoders] Background colour in htmlText

[Richard Rodseth]

Am I right that the html rendering in the Flex text control does not support
the style attribute of the <font> tag?

    <mx:Text width="100%"  >
        <mx:htmlText>
            <![CDATA[
                This is <font style="background-color: yellow"
>yellow</font> text.
            ]]>
        </mx:htmlText>
    </mx:Text>

I need to delimit sections of a string by background color, but still get
the automatic ellipsis behaviour if the string is too long.