TextField Stylesheet is not working?

Question

Hi,
I guess this one i easy but i can't figure out what's the problem:
I have a TextField which styleSheet i want to change at runtime.
For testing I created a new .FLA  put a Textfield on stage, set it to dynamic, named it mytxt and added some AS3:
import flash.text.StyleSheet;
import flash.text.TextField;
var _style = new StyleSheet();
_style.parseCSS('p{color:#ff0000;}');
mytxt.styleSheet = _style;
Well - nothing changed I still have a default black text when I publish the swf.
What am I missing?
My goals:
- Set a TextField in Flash IDE
- set the font, weight, color, size etc.
- apply a styleSheet containing colors for links
Thanks, Booya

Answer 1

Ok, everything works now. Thanks for clearing things up.
It confused me that I couldnt change the style of font - well i still cant.
<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="4"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT
FACE="Arial" SIZE="16" COLOR="#242424" LETTERSPACING="0"
KERNING="1">TEXT</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT>
import flash.text.StyleSheet;
import flash.text.TextField;
var _style = new StyleSheet();
_style.parseCSS('font{color:#00ff00}');
mytxt.styleSheet = _style;
The text will still be "black"
But it is not that bad because i will add some additional HTML within the existing font tags:
<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="4"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT
FACE="Arial" SIZE="16" COLOR="#242424" LETTERSPACING="0"
KERNING="1"><SPAN CLASS="red">TEXT</SPAN></FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT>
so changing the stylesheet according to my HTML and everything works like expected:
import flash.text.StyleSheet;
import flash.text.TextField;
var _style = new StyleSheet();
_style.parseCSS('.red{color:#00ff00}');
mytxt.styleSheet = _style;