About the Spark text controls

You use Flex text-based controls to display text and to let users enter text into your application.

The following table lists the primary Flex text-based controls:

Control

Component set

Superclass

Multi Line

Editable

textFlow/text/textDisplay

Label

Spark

UIComponent

Y

N

text

RichEditableText

Spark

UIComponent

Y

Y

textFlow/text

RichText

Spark

UIComponent

Y

N

textFlow/text

TextArea

Spark

UIComponent

Y

Y

textFlow/text

TextInput

Spark

UIComponent

N

Y

text/textDisplay (textFlow)