title: Flash AS2.0 - Increase Label's Font Size
body: <p>I know this sounds like a really obvious question, but it's proving harder to figure out than I thought. I'm developing in Flash 8/ActionScript 2.0.</p>
  
  <p>I have a label component, and I'm dynamically assigning it text from an xml document. For example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>label.text = "&lt;b&gt;" + xml_node.firstChild + "&lt;/b&gt;";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This successfully changes the label's text to whatever is in that XML node, and since I enabled HTML, it makes it bold. However, I want to increase the size of the label's font, and using <code>&lt;font&gt;</code> tags won't work.</p>
  
  <p>Am I missing something? How do I make the font larger? ActionScript is just so picky!</p>