Comments on: Applying a cascading style sheet to a TextArea control in Flex

By: Alex C

Alex C — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:47:48 +0000

Worked like a charm! Thanks, PeterD. One question: I noticed that in your CSS declarations you didn’t have any “px” or other measurement units after the sizes. I’ve tried setting the margin-bottom:10 on an H1 tag, but it won’t take. Any thoughts? It looks like this,

h4{
font-size: 14;
margin-bottom: 10;
}

Thanks.

By: peterd

peterd — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:45:39 +0000

Sean Baker,

I don’t believe there is a vertical align style in Flex 3/Halo.

Peter

By: Sean Baker

Sean Baker — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:52:29 +0000

Hi Peter,

I need to apply “vertical-align” to a TextArea and can’t seem to find how to do that anywhere. Can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Sean.

By: Lee Probert

Lee Probert — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:28:01 +0000

Would be great if you could use MXML to generate a StyleSheet object. Anyone know if you can parse a Style Tag in?

By: SB

SB — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:15:11 +0000

I am trying to style a TextArea that is called by a Repeater and I keep getting an error that Flex cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. I think it is because the TextArea doesn’t exist until after the stylesheet is called. Any ideas?

By: peterd

peterd — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:29:57 +0000

JP Venter,

Does setting the styleSheet property again after setting the text property work?

Peter

By: JP Venter

JP Venter — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:52:51 +0000

Hi PeterD,

I have a situation with external css and a textarea control which is populated with html (styled with classes) drawn from a database. Building on from your example above, the textarea is initially styled correctly. But try loading in new text to replace the text in the textarea after having scrolled. For me the styling bombs out, but what is weird is that it is only after a scroll of the textarea has occurred. I am using flex builder 3.

Do have any idea why this may be happening?

Thanks, JP

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:20:02 +0000

Thanks for another superb flex example. I have tried using this method with the textarea of a richTextEditor component. I get an error due to the fact that the input text is obviously editable . Is there anyway of applying this method to editable text or is it the fact that it calls the stylesheet at runtime is the problem and therefore would need to parse the css again after editing text? Hope you can help.

Steve

By: David Buhler

David Buhler — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:00:08 +0000

Seems the RegEx for the blog ate part of my comment…I was using the underline tag in HTML to create the look of a hyperlink.

By: David Buhler

David Buhler — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:54:59 +0000

I would be curious to see if the same styles could be applied to a Rich Text Editor. My understanding is that they cannot be. The best I’ve come up with is to apply a tag along with a color attribute, which presents limitations.

We’ve found that the inability in the RTE to display hyperlinks leads to a lot of confusion.

Useful demo of the TA styles (and much appreciated), though.