Loading External Text-file Into CS3 TextArea And Styling Through CSS

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        // Actualy the customTextArea is extending the Adobe's TextArea component . The class can be downloaded from here >>> http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2008/03/adding_css_supp.html .For more info visit 

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var style:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
style.setStyle(".heading", {fontWeight:"bold", color:"#FF0000", fontSize:22});
style.setStyle("body", {fontStyle:"italic" ,fontSize:18 , color:"#0000ff"});
style.setStyle(".customStyle" , {fontStyle:"italic" , fontSize:30 ,color:"#00ff00"});
customTextArea.setStyle("styleSheet", style);

var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest("externalText.txt");
var textLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
textLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE , textLoaded);
textLoader.load(req);

function textLoaded(evt:Event):void {
    textLoader.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE , textLoaded);	
	
	customTextArea.htmlText = evt.target.data;
	}

Tags:
• CS3
• flash