You mean something like:
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";>
<mx:Style source="../assets/SimpleTypeSelector.css"/>
<mx:Button id="myButton" label="Click Me"/>
</mx:Application>
From: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=styles_05.html
Teddy R. Payne, ACCFD
Google Talk - [email protected]
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:44 PM, John Waggener <[email protected]>wrote:
> When using text in Flex, I commonly create TextAreas, assign marked up text
> (htmlText property) to those areas and then apply a StyleSheet.
>
> I couple of limitations that are frustrating. TextArea doesn't seem to
> resize automatically. This means if I have a couple of TextAreas in the
> flow of a Box, they may not be large enough for the text. If I assign new
> text they do not resize appropriately. I don't find flash's textheight
> calculations reliable.
>
> The flow of text and media.
> I do believe that htmlText can contain an img tag, making it part of the
> flow. But the range of styles is limited.
>
> In general, is there a good way, a best practice, to use marked up text and
> other uicomponents in a flow? Can text wrap a Ui component that is a
> videoplayer?
>
> Also, can I can use an external CSS to style a TextArea with marked up
> text?
>
> I know that i can set styleName to one style definition. But the point is
> to apply any number of styles to any number of tags.
>
> __textArea.styleSheet = someExternalCss; -- ideally a CSS that is applied
> to whole app without explicitly loading.
>
> Any thoughts or pointers to resources are appreciated.
>
> What I'm doing:
>
> private var __info:TextArea;
> private var styles:StyleSheet;
> private var stylesText:String =
> '.h1{ font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Times; font-weight:
> regular; color:#ffffff; font-size:20; }'+
> '.regular{ font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Times; font-weight:
> regular; color:#ffffff; font-size:14; }'+
> '.link{ font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Times; font-weight:
> regular; color:#68b8d6; font-size:14; text-decoration:underline; }';
>
> styles = new StyleSheet();
> styles.parseCSS(stylesText);
>
> __info = new TextArea();
> __info.styleSheet = styles;
>
>
> --
> Johnny Waggener
> Software Developer
> Multicast Media
> 678-592-2650
>
