Thank you for the clarification. On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM, valdhor <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > You need to read the section titled "Summary and Background". > > In that section it states "Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used in Flex to > apply styles to visual components on the application display list. To-date > we've supported simple type selectors and universal class selectors. > Customers have requested more advanced CSS selectors and in Gumbo we plan to > provide two new selector types - id selectors and descendant selectors - as > well as fix class selectors so that they can be a condition of type > selectors." > > Now that you know ID selectors will be added in Gumbo you can do a Google > search on "Flex Gumbo" and find out that Gumbo is the code name for the next > version of Flex (ie. Flex 4/Flash Builder 4). Gumbo was defined in July 2008 > and the first Beta was available in June 2009. > > If you wish to use ID selectors you can download the Flex 4 SDK and target > Flash Player 10. > > > --- In [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Joel > Stransky <stranskydes...@...> wrote: > > > > I'm using 3.4 > > That article I linked to was last edited april 4th 2009. I'm new to flex > so > > I just assumed that was an accurate spec. > > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:36 AM, valdhor <valdhorli...@...>wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > What version of the SDK are you using? > > > > > > From what I can ascertain, ID selectors are new as of FB4. > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected] > > > <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com><flexcoders% > 40yahoogroups.com>, Joel > > > > Stransky <stranskydesign@> wrote: > > > > > > > > How is it that this page claims id selectors are valid yet Flex > Builder > > > > balks when I try to use them? > > > > > http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/CSS+Advanced+Selectors > > > > > > > > According to the article, I should be able to do this. > > > > in HelloFlex.mxml > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > > > > <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";> > > > > <mx:Canvas id="theCanvas" /> > > > > </mx:Application> > > > > > > > > in HelloFlex.css > > > > #theCanvas{} > > > > > > > > What gives? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > --Joel Stransky > > > > stranskydesign.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > --Joel Stransky > > stranskydesign.com > > > > > -- --Joel Stransky stranskydesign.com
