Text Area

Can you change the background colour on a Text area from the components panel in flash?
At the moment it is set to white (standard)

I couldn't find a way.
I tried with the Components inspector as well as the properties, which I'm sure you have tried as well...


That or I'm completely missing something...

Say your text field had an instance name of..."mytxt"

You can change values using AS like this: (I don't think you can do it from the components panel.)

mytxt.background = true; //need to set this b/c the default is false
mytxt.backgroundcolor = ffffff;

There are other values you can change, such as:

border
borderColor
textColor

Along with many others, including alignment and such.

Hope this helps.

instancename.backgroundColor = "0x339933";

or

instancename.setStyle("backgroundColor", "0x339933");

as found at:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/mx20...=00002833.html

And
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/mx20...9.html#1063729

This is for text area's right?

Ah...I see what I missed...haha...I feel stupid now...

Yes, but you can use this same format (kind of like .css) in flash for any text fields, fonts, sizes and so on. Which overall can help with load times and so on, just like a CSS is used globally, so could those...