how to show rich formatted text in textarea

I have a form that uses Richtexteditor of Flex3 to write in their rep开发者_运维知识库ly. The reply is then posted to a textarea, where all of the formatting is lost! I have embedded the font since I was doing some tweeening on the text boxes. I need to find out how keep the formatting intact in the textarea from richtexteditor! has anybody an idea?

Make sure that you set the htmlText property on the TextArea, not just text.