Figured it out. Triple equals will tell me if they are pointing to the same actual style.
this.getStyle(style) === typeSelector.getStyle(style) Sorry for the interruption, Ben --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "ben.clinkinbeard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As part of my well-documented default styling efforts I have come upon > a need for doing what the title describes. Basically I need to figure > out how to determine where a style was assigned. For example, Panel > has a titleStyleName style that defaults to "windowStyles". You can > obviously override this with something like <mx:Panel > titleStyleName="fooStyle" />. getStyle("titleStyleName") will return > the correct value, but I need to determine if the style was defined > inline or in the type selector because in my component structure there > are styles whose precedence is less than inline but greater than the > type selector. > > Is this possible? > > Thanks, > Ben >