Formatted text inside flash inputField

how can I save formatted text in flash and maintain style(ie color, size, bold, italics)
example:
in the input field I write something, then i make it bold, and blue. I would like to save this text in the edited form of bold and blue. how do I save that text FORMATED to a variable.

That's because it's probably stripping the characters it doesn't like, such as HTML and formatting. Your best strategy at that point is to convert it before you send it through your script so your script tolerates it. You can try the encode() function run on your string which will URL encode it and the decode() function can restore it. Otherwise you need to replace anything your script doesn't like with something else intentionally. e.g. turn italics into [i]italics[/i] and then later fix it.
I myself would look at what PHP is doing. Chances are it's running the striptags function. It's just a safety measure to stop SQL injections (make code safer). But that may not be what you want. If you're at all uncomfortable with that, you'd best not do it though. You take the risk someone will sneak something in that you do not want.

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including .
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http://www.flashtexteditor.com/.
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Flash/Flex has been an exercise in frustration, especially when
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