setting background color with external CSS

[kofi addaquay]

something weird is going on. i am trying to set background color of a text box through external css and not any other method. the definition in my xml is like this

.myTest
{
   background-color: #00FF00;
}

the text field is fully functioning cos i can put text in and color it etc etc. but i cant set the background for the text field. i know i can use the 'backgroundColor' , but that is within my actionscript. i dont want to do that. i want to set the color of my text background from the stylesheet. any ideas..i have tried all ..i think . i also noticed in the documentation ..that background color was not part of the supported css styles. true ??

[Ronald Wernecke]

you have to create a styleObject and assign it to the field.

[kofi addaquay]

ah ! nice !...so be using the styleObject, i am about to load the stylesheet and reference the css classes by name and apply it to the text fields. excellent. i will give this a shot on monday and see how it goes. will also paste a lil sample code of how it works... since there is no reference of styleObject on this site. Thanks Ronald

[kofi addaquay]

Style Object didnt work as expected. Ended up using javascript to read and write to a css file and then return those values via external interface for flash to use.

Laterz