Setting the dropdown menu border thickness and border color on a ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 18, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the border color and border thickness on a Flex ComboBox control’s dropdown menu by setting the borderColor, borderThickness, and dropdownStyleName styles.

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Toggling the drop shadow on the ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can toggle the drop shadow on the Flex ComboBox control by setting the dropShadowEnabled style on the ComboBox control’s dropdown menu.

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Toggling item roll over highlighting on a ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 7, 2008 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can toggle the item roll over hightlighting on a Flex ComboBox control’s dropdown menu by setting the useRollOver style using ActionScript or CSS.

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Using embedded fonts with the ComboBox control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On July 6, 2008 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can use an embedded font with the Flex ComboBox control by setting the fontFamily style and dropdownStyleName style.

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Creating semi-transparent ComboBox dropdown menus in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 1, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can create semi-transparent dropdown menus in the Flex ComboBox control by setting the backgroundAlpha style.

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Styling a Flex 3 ComboBox control’s vertical scroll bars

By Peter deHaan On December 29, 2007 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can style the vertical scroll bar on a ComboBox control in Flex 3 by setting the dropdownStyleName style and verticalScrollBarStyleName style.

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Styling a ComboBox control’s dropdown menu

By Peter deHaan On August 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Here is a basic example of formatting the Flex ComboBox control’s dropdown menu using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). In this example we create a 3 pixel drop shadow on the right of the dropdown menu, as well as round each of the corners on the drop down by 5 pixels.

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