Problem in displaying HTML in flex

Hi all,

I want to display HTML in my flex application. HTML that I want to display is output of tinyMCE rich text area plugin (http://tinymce.moxiecode.com).

Example of HTML text that i want to display is like follows

I tried using TextArea to display this HTML. I tried it using website http://polygeek.com/2249_flex_display-html-text-in-the-spark-textarea.
But the above HTML text does not gets displayed properly.

if HTML is in following format
testcolor
Then it gets displayed properly using TextArea
but it fails if styles are used i.e.
color

Same is the case if I use htmlText="" atribute of <mx:text>.

Any other way in which i can display my HTML in Flex ? Mean time I am looking at how to change output format of HTML generated by TinyMCE

Not really. Flex's support for HTML is very poor. If you need to display HTML I would consider a different technology. There are third party extensions to show HTML, but these will increase the size of your SWF considerably.

It is I think the bug/enhancement request with the biggest number of votes: see this.

Have you tried this, http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=textcontrols_04.html

You should be very aware of the caveats Adobe list in that control. It supports a very small subset of HTML elements, some are broken (the < img /> tag does not work properly, the cursor behaviour of <a / > is easily broken, the size attribute behaves differently from the spec. etc.) and included a tag not listed in the HTML spec. (the <textformat /> tag).

Basically, if rendering standards compliant HTML is an important aspect of your application, use a browser - don't use Flex.