It's possible, but not trivial, to style hyperlinks in HTML text in Flex. Here is an example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="vertical"> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ import mx.core.mx_internal; private function label1_initializeHandler(event:Event):void { label1.htmlText = "Click <a href='http://www.adobe.com'>here</a>"; var styleSheet:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet(); styleSheet.setStyle("a:link", { textDecoration: "underline", color: "#0000FF" }); styleSheet.setStyle("a:hover", { textDecoration: "underline", color: "#FFFF00" }); styleSheet.setStyle("a:active", { textDecoration: "underline", color: "#FF0000" }); label1.mx_internal::styleSheet = styleSheet; } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:Label id="label1" selectable="true" initialize="label1_initializeHandler(event)"/> </mx:Application> You must do it through the Flash Player's StyleSheet class; you can't use <mx:Styles>. Flex's CSS styles apply to the Flex DOM, while StyleSheet applies to the HTML DOM. We haven't devoted a lot of attention to HTML text in Flex because the Flash Player's support for HTML is so limited and many Flex developers find it doesn't meet their needs, Apollo will change that, but it isn't clear when the Player's HTML support for Flex apps in the browser will get better. - Gordon ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ethan Miller Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 1:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Styling in Flex is officially ridiculous While in general I've been fairly happy with my ability to style flex, one area in which really lacking (and unfortunately for me in a key place for my application) is in styling text, especially text contained in an htmlText element. Despite reading the docs 5 times now, I remain unable to style a simple anchor tag (<A HREF="">. "A" as a type selector doesn't work, but neither do a:link, a:hover, or a:active which the docs say should work. Why the A tag doesn't simply support styleName as an attribute (or class="" or style="") is a complete mind bender to me. Why htmlText doesn't support <span styleName=""> is equally puzzling. Also, is it just me or are many of the css property names different, eg font-family vs fontFamily, etc. And what about shorthand syntax, eg "border: 1x dotted black." I realize and accept as necessary and good the need to support a limited set of HTML tags but don't understand why standard and rigorous text styling is so out of reach. This in fact would be one of my top wish list items for future releases. Meantime, if anyone has any tips on styling text now, I'm all ears =) cheers, ethan
