flex textarea text attribute but still renders as html

Question

actually i got to the cause of the issue.

if you feed the textarea text attribute with an tag that has a valid src url, then for some reason flex will try to render everything as html.

Eg, try this:

<mx:TextArea id="textArea" width="100%" height="90%" text="<img src='http://url-to-a-valid-img"/&gt; 

and instead of it rendering it as raw text it will render it as an html.

any idea?

Answer 1

Really? I cannot even get it to compile with the < symbol there. Have you tried converting using &lt;?

Answer 2

okay, strange i manage to fix this issue. its a weird fix not sure why I had to do it.

But basically, when i copy over the variable's string content into a TextArea htmlText - any img with a valid src seems to get erased.

Its an odd issue that I just want to move on from.