Have you tried using CDATA around your text when retrieving from your database?
<![CDATA[ .... ]]> I use it to store HTML formatted text in a database and to retrieve it back into any HTML capable control, such as rtfedit or textarea... even a simple TEXT control as itemrenderer works with this method... HTH Iko --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "pdflibpilot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to develop a method to allow web administrators to be able > to edit text in their Flex application directly in the UI (without > Flex). This text gets saved to mySQL when they close the rich text > editor. > > The data is stored correctly in mySQL however when its retrieved it > gets formated as an XML object when extracted from the event.result. > > While this makes it easy to populate the various labels and text > objects with the rich text data. The problem is that the rich text > data gets formatted as XML with new lines and indents. Like in this > dmup............ > > <contentLive> > <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"> > <P ALIGN="CENTER"> > <FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="14" COLOR="#FFFFFF" LETTERSPACING="0" > KERNING="0"> > <B>This is </B> > <FONT COLOR="#0033FF"> > <B> > <U>live content</U> > </B> > </FONT> > </FONT> > </P> > </TEXTFORMAT> > </contentLive> > > How can I force it to treat it as raw text just like its stored in > mySQL without the formatting ? >
