Styling Ranges of text

Hi,
I'm having problem with the TextArea- and/or
RichText-controls in Flex. I can't find any way to change the
background color or individual lines or characters in the control.
I've tried to apply styles to tags in the htmlText-property. But no
luck there.
Is it even possible to do this in Flex3?
Edit: What I'm trying to accomplish with this, is a kind of
ANSI-Graphics editor/viewer.
Thanks in advance
Patrik

You insert html code. I know this crude, but it works. Here
is a textarea what you want.
<mx:TextArea width="600" height="100" fontSize="16"
textAlign ="left"
textIndent="0"
leading="0"
wordWrap="true"
paddingLeft="0">
<mx:htmlText><![CDATA[
Three methods for solving the quadratic equation are listed
above.
With some color and
underline.
 This is a paragraph. and more This text
is bold

This text is italic



This is HTML text
in a TextArea component. Using the
htmlText attribute of the TextArea component you can use
basic HTML markup
This is some content to
render as HTML
text.
]]></mx:htmlText>
</mx:TextArea>

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