The following example shows how you can change the width of the item separators in a Flex LinkBar control by setting the separatorWidth style. Full code after the jump.

The following example shows how you can detect when a Flex Alert control is closed by listening for the close event by specifying the closeHandler parameter in the static Alert.show() method. Full code after the jump.

The following example shows how you can determine when the Flex DateField control’s is opened or closed by listening for the open or close events. Full code after the jump.

The following example shows how you can detect when the user changes the selected month in the Flex DateChooser control by listening for the scroll event. Full code after the jump.

The following example shows you how you can align the selected date in the Flex DateField control’s text field by setting the textAlign style. Full code after the jump.

The following example shows how you can specify a custom field to be used for a tool tip in a Flex ButtonBar control by setting the toolTipField property. Full code after the jump.

The following example shows how you can set the text color on an enabled and disabled Flex TextArea control by setting the color and disabledColor styles. Full code after the jump.

The following example shows how you can set the selected text in a Flex TextArea control by using the setSelection() method. Full code after the jump.

In a previous example, “Condensing HTML white space in the TextArea control in Flex”, we looked at how you could condense HTML formatted text in a TextArea control by setting the condenseWhite property. The following example shows you how you can condense white space around HTML tags using the Flex RichTextEditor control, the htmlText property, and [...

The following example shows you how you can condense white space around HTML tags using the Flex TextArea control, the htmlText property, and the condenseWhite property. Full code after the jump.