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.
If you're using the RichEditableText component instead, you can do it this way using the TextConverter class
var myStr:String = "I contain <b>html</b> tags!";
myRichEditableText.textFlow = TextConverter.importToFlow(myStr, TextConverter.TEXT_FIELD_HTML_FORMAT);
It can be also used in spark textArea:
var myStr:String = "I contain html tags!";
textAarea.textFlow = TextConverter.importToFlow(myStr, TextConverter.TEXT_FIELD_HTML_FORMAT);
This sometime will not work, if the HTML code is big and have some tags that can`t be rendered
TextFlowUtil.importFromString(yourHTMLString);
Check out the content property in the TextArea docs. Note the example at the end of the page.. it shows how to embed HTML.
body.textFlow = TextFlowUtil.importFromString(yourHTMLString);
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.
David Gassner's Flashbuilder 4 & Flex 4 has a section on this.
Take a look at TextFlowUtil. If you want to embed the HTML directly into the Spark TextArea (or RichText / RichEditableText), you can use the content tag as a child, then add the p or span tags thereafter - The supported HTML tags are part of the s namespace too.
Can also use :
(myTextArea.textDisplay as StyleableTextField).htmlText = text;