Solve formatting in a TextArea

Hi all,

I'm new to AS. I'm trying to make my own apps on Flash Builder 4 using some examples but most of them are from Flex 3. I'm trying to interact with Wowza Media Server.

In a simple text chat application I have a returning string that's printed into a TextArea but the HTML tags are not bing parsed. Here's the message passed to the TextArea:

msg = "<u>"+hourStr+":"+minuteStr+":"+secondStr+ampm+"</u> - <b>"+chatData.user+"</b>: "+chatData.message;
				return msg;

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and here's the result every time I insert a msg:

<p><u>10:04:38AM</u> - <b>My Name</b>: This is a sample message sent to the chat</p>

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It also doesn't recognize the line breaks. All the msgs appear one after another.

This is my actual TextArea for displaying messages:

<s:TextArea content="{chatText}" id="listChat" width="500" height="200" enabled="{isConnected}"/>

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I've tried content="" and also text="" with the same result.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!