How to format text in flex TextArea?

Question

TextArea in flex doesn't render <TABLE></TABLE>.

I want to display text in textarea in two columns.

Column1           Column2
Row1:             Data, data, data row1
Row2 longer:      Data, data, data row2

Depending on text width in Column1 text in Column2 will be shifted. So all rows in Column2 are going to be aligned. How can I do this without html <table>?

Answer 1

I'm not sure if I understand you the right way, but why not just use raw text and insert fixed number of space between datas?

Answer 2

TextArea is only good enough to render normal text with little formatting like font/color/indents etc. htmlText support in flash/flex is very limited.

You can use the DataGrid control in Flex to render tabular data.