You need to check out the TextRange object. There is an example in the manual at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=textcontrols_05.html.
--- In [email protected], "khan.ibraheem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am a newbie and am learning this technology. Here is what I want. I > want a textarea in which I can color,font of text. That is I can the > color, font of any text in the TEXTAREA programmability. As far as I > know I can not achieve this through textarea because it allows to > change the color,font of selected text. > > So, I thought of using RichTextboxEditor. However, I just need a > simple textarea and not the toolbar, header and other controls visible > in RichTextboxEditor. I have hide the toolbar and header of > RichTextboxEditor but the size of textarea(in RichTextboxEditor) is > not equivalent to the size of RichTextboxEditor. > > Can anyone please help. I would be really thankful to him/her. > > Regards. >

