You could try
<mx:TextArea width="200" height="200"> <mx:htmlText><![CDATA[<font size='14'> my image - </font><img src='myImage.jpg' height='25' width='25'/><font size='14'>more text</font>]]></mx:htmlText> </mx:TextArea> I did this just to see what would happen, and there may be some positional issues with the text, but I'm sure that can be sorted out with the appropriate html text. Worth a shot and somewhere to start for more info on htmlText see below link. http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/flash/text/TextField.html#htmlT ext Kenneth. ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oleg Filipchuk Sent: 16 May 2007 14:37 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Flex emoticon Hello, I'm developing Flex chat and face the problems to display emoticons in TextArea. After some googling I've found this one http://labs.flexcoders.nl/?p=52 <http://labs.flexcoders.nl/?p=52> Do you have any idea how did they handle to display inline images in that TextArea? Thanks -- Best regards, Oleg Filipchuk