How to apply css styling in flash AS3..?

HI All,

I want to know how to style an anchor tag(eg: need to chnage color blue and I want to make it bold) in flash.

I created a flash widget that for rss feeds and Im not sure about how to add styles in it like css we using in dreamweaver.

Lets take a look at the script below, it is AS3..

what I want is..

1, I need to make that a tag should be looking bold and paleblue color.

2, Need to add a grey border after description ends.

function onLoaded(e:Event):void
{
    xml = new XML(e.target.data);
    var il:XMLList = xml.channel.item;
    for(var i:uint=0; i<il.length(); i++)
    {
    ta.htmlText="<a href='"+il.link.text()[0]+"'>"+il.title.text()[0]+"</a>"+"\<br />"+il.description.text()[0]+开发者_JAVA百科"\<br />"+"\<br /><hr />"+"<a href='"+il.link.text()[1]+"'>"+il.title.text()[1]+"</a>"+"\<br />"+il.description.text()[1]+"\<br />"+"\<br /><hr />"+"<a href='"+il.link.text()[2]+"'>"+il.title.text()[2]+"</a>"+"\<br />"+il.description.text()[2];
    addChild(ta);
               }
}

Looking for your REPLIES ..

Thanks in Advance!

Paul

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you can use style sheet in flash textField, but not all properties are supported.
only below are supported:

    color
    display
    fontFamily
    fontSize 
    fontStyle
    fontWeight
    kerning
    leading
    letterSpacing
    marginLeft
    marginRight
    textAlign
    textDecoration
    textIndent

see: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS2LCR/Flash_10.0/help.html?content=00000292.html

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You can create a Stylesheet and apply it to your textfield like so:

var css:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
css.parseCSS('a { color: #99CCFF; font-weight: bold; }');
textField.styleSheet = css;

Flash only supports a subset of CSS rules for textfields, and this doesn't include borders so you'll probably need to draw your bottom border using the graphics API.

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I wrote this a while ago to cover fonts specifically, but it has details in there on using CSS on elements within htmlText. I think it should help you, pay attention to the way the StyleSheet class works: http://mykola.bilokonsky.net/2010/08/flash-css-and-embedded-fonts/