Actionscript to display HTML

[xsw1971]

I am using a flash form in a ColdFusion application and am creating a variable using actionscript in order to display HTML in the form. I want to display form items as text instead of form items if the user doesn't have update rights. I found some code in a sample address book application but I can't get the HTML to format correctly.

My question is: how can I insert multiple tabs into text? When the text on the left of the tab is small enough it looks great but when it gets bigger it doesn't work. Here's an exmple:

{(
 ("<b>Category:</b>\t" + myForm.myField1) +
 ("<br><b>Type:</b>\t" + myForm.myField2) +
 ("<br><b>Model:</b>\t" + myForm.myField3) +
 ("<br><b>Acquisition Date:</b>\t" + myForm.myField4) +
 ("<br><b>Serial No:</b>\t" + myForm.myField5)
)}

Results in:

[b]Category:[/b]  Some Category
[b]Type:[/b]      Some Type
[b]Model:[/b]     Some Model
[b]Acquisition Date:[/b]Some Date
[b]Serial No:[/b] Some Serial No

I tried adding \t\t to the above code but it seems to ignore any tabs after the first one. Other than physically typing in enough spaces on each line to get the items to line up is there a way to force flash to recognize multiple tabs?

Thanks in advance!

BTW - I'm posting here instead of the CF forum because the question is specifically related to actionscript. They don't like that in CF!