If you are just starting out with Flash, FireCode has published a step by step Flash tutorial where he explains exactly how to incorporate HTML and CSS in Actionscript 3.0. You can find the tutorial and the source files here.

Although it`s a very easy to follow tutorial, you need to familiarize yourself with AS3 Event Handling and Loaders because data will be loaded from external sources.

During this tutorial you will learn:

- how using HTML and CSS inside our flash applications can sometimes simplify our work, especially when we are using a large amount of text fields, each one with it’s own formatting.
- how to load external text

To make things even easier, FireCode has also included the source code for you to use in this tutorial.  Head on over to the tutorial section of the website to start.

Time to complete: 20 minutes.