The property ‘htmlText’ is gone in spark TextArea. It was obviously making life too easy

A work around is to use the spark.utils.TextFlowUtil and shove the html code in it. It formats it for TextArea to display.

This example goes a step further and shows how to add more to an existing TextArea with HTML in it.

// Required: spark.utils.TextFlowUtil
// output is a <s:TextArea />

output.textFlow = TextFlowUtil.importFromString(output.text + htmlSourceToAdd + "<br />");