Display HTML text in the Spark TextArea

Question

The Below code is running well...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" 
      xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" 
      xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" >
 <fx:Declarations>
  <mx:HTTPService id="httpRSS" url="http://www.petefreitag.com/rss/" resultFormat="object" />
 </fx:Declarations>
  <s:Panel id="reader" title="Blog Reader" width="500">
  <mx:DataGrid width="485" id="entries" dataProvider="{httpRSS.lastResult.rss.channel.item}" click="{body.htmlText=httpRSS.lastResult.rss.channel.item[entries.selectedIndex].description}">
   <mx:columns>
    <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="title" headerText="TITLE"/>
    <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="pubDate" headerText="Date"/>    
   </mx:columns>
  </mx:DataGrid>
  <mx:TextArea id="body" editable="false" width="485" x="3" y="142" height="155"/>
 </s:Panel>
 <s:Button label="Load" x="10" y="329" click="{httpRSS.send()}"/>
 </s:Application>

But when Textarea is changed to spark Textrea like below

<s:TextArea id="body" editable="false" width="485" x="3" y="142" height="155"/>

Then htmlText doesn't support Spark Textarea. Hence produces error. How does one go about displaying HTML formatted text with spark Text Area Property.

Answer 1

I don't think you can. You should stick to using the Halo TextArea component or you should investigate the Text Layout Framework to accomplish your goals.

Answer 2

Check out the content property in the TextArea docs. Note the example at the end of the page.. it shows how to embed HTML.