Globally styling anchor tags on a Spark RichEditableText control in Flex 4

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<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/03/17/globally-styling-anchor-tags-on-a-textview-control-in-flex-gumbo/ -->
<s:Application name="TextFlow_defaultConfiguration_test"
        xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
        xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
        xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo"
        preinitialize="init();">
 
    <fx:Script>
        import flashx.textLayout.elements.Configuration;
        import flashx.textLayout.elements.TextFlow;
        import flashx.textLayout.formats.TextDecoration;
        import flashx.textLayout.formats.TextLayoutFormatValueHolder;
 
        private function init():void {
            var cfg:Configuration = TextFlow.defaultConfiguration;
 
            var normalTLF:TextLayoutFormatValueHolder = new TextLayoutFormatValueHolder(cfg.defaultLinkNormalFormat);
            normalTLF.color = 0xFF0000;
 
            var hoverTLF:TextLayoutFormatValueHolder = new TextLayoutFormatValueHolder(cfg.defaultLinkHoverFormat);
            hoverTLF.color = 0xFF00FF;
            hoverTLF.textDecoration = TextDecoration.NONE;
 
            var activeTLF:TextLayoutFormatValueHolder = new TextLayoutFormatValueHolder(cfg.defaultLinkActiveFormat);
            activeTLF.color = 0x00FF00;
 
            cfg.defaultLinkNormalFormat = normalTLF;
            cfg.defaultLinkHoverFormat = hoverTLF;
            cfg.defaultLinkActiveFormat = activeTLF;
            TextFlow.defaultConfiguration = cfg;
        }
    </fx:Script>
 
    <s:RichEditableText editable="false" width="300" horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0">
        <s:textFlow>
            <s:TextFlow>
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            </s:TextFlow>
        </s:textFlow>
    </s:RichEditableText>
 
</s:Application>