Text area line height customisation with css

Does anyone know if there is a way to customise the line height of text in a TextArea component that uses css to control the xml content? Most other styles seem to work fine in the stylesheet, but not that one...

Below is a list of the CSS styles that Flash supports. In BOLD are the CSS properties, in ITALICS are the ActionScript Equiv. and plain text is the description: This is all right from the MX04 AS Dictionary:

• text-align >> textAlign >> Recognized values are left, center, and right.
• font-size >> fontSize >> Only the numeric part of the value is used; units (px, pt) are not parsed; pixels and points are equivalent.
• text-decoration >> textDecoration >> Recognized values are none and underline.
• margin-left >> marginLeft >> Only the numeric part of the value is used. Units (px, pt) are not parsed; pixels and points are equivalent.
• margin-right >> marginRight >> Only the numeric part of the value is used. Units (px, pt) are not parsed; pixels and points are equivalent.
• font-weight >> fontWeight >> Recognized values are normal and bold.
• font-style >> fontStyle >> Recognized values are normal and italic.
• text-indent >> textIndent >> Only the numeric part of the value is used. Units (px, pt) are not parsed; pixels and points are equivalent.
• font-family >> fontFamily >> A comma-separated list of fonts to use, in descending order of desirability. Any font family name can be used. If you specify a generic font name, it will be converted to an appropriate device font. The following font conversions are available: mono is converted to _typewriter, sans-serif is converted to _sans, and serif is converted to _serif.
• color >> color >> Only hexadecimal color values are supported. Named colors (like blue) are not supported.
• display >> display >> Supported values are inline, block, and none.

Hey.. just came across this:

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Specifying the leading / line-height through a CSS is indeed not possible but if you set it (using actionscript) in the _styles part of the of the Textfield.StyleSheet object it will work. So anyone any experience in overruling the default CSSParser?
Posted by: Eric at June 2, 2004 04:54 AM
It's even easier, agd these lines of code to your styleSheet.onLoad section and the leading/line-height will work!

Code:

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for (stijl in this._css) {
if (this._css[stijl].lineHeight != undefined) {
this._styles[stijl].leading =
Number(this._css[stijl].lineHeight.slice(0, this._css[stijl].lineHeight.indexOf("p")));
}
}

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Posted by: eric at June 2, 2004 08:16 AM

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the link to the whole blog post is http://www.whatdoiknow.org/archives/001181.shtml

maybe that will help?...

Thanks alot for your help - i appreciate it. to be honest it sounds a bit beyond me, but i know this problem is going to wear me donw eventually so i might just give it a crack :-)

sorry to be a pain, but where would i find the 'stylesheet.onload section' or even the textfiled.stylesheet object?