Spark Label linebreak

[Note to Self]

You can’t simply set the text of an MXML declared Spark Label like below and expect linebreak or carriage returns to work:

<s:Label text="this is where I desire my line break to be\nnow the second line begins....."
         maxDisplayedLine="2"/>

You now have to explicitly wrap the linebreak or carriage return in binding brackets and single quotes like so:

<s:Label text="this is where I desire my line break to be{'\n'}now the second line begins....."
         maxDisplayedLine="2" 
         lineBreak="explicit"/>

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