Adobe Flex 4: Training from the Source, Volume 1

Lesson 16. Customizing a Flex Application with Styles

What You Will Learn

In this lesson, you will:

• Learn how Flex applications are styled

• Set styles via tag attributes

• Learn about inheritable style properties

• Set styles via the <mx:Style> tag

• Set styles via CSS files

Approximate Time

This lesson takes approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete.

Out of the box, Flex provides a lot of functionality, but it has a rather generic look for an application. In this lesson, you will explore how to apply basic customizations to a Flex application using styles applied both inline and via CSS style sheets.

The FlexGrocer application ...