# Components styling: guru needed

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/components-styling-guru-needed/156345>\
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**Created:** [July 25, 2005, 9:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/components-styling-guru-needed/156345 "2005-07-25T09:17:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 25, 2005, 9:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/components-styling-guru-needed/156345/1 "2005-07-25T09:17:25Z")

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I think I need some help in explaining styling components, or otherwise the Flash documentation is just plain wrong ☹

What I’m trying to do is style the checkbox component.  
More specifically I want to change the color of the checkbox.  
According to the docs I could do it like this:

```auto

my_cb.style.setStyle("symbolColor", 0xff0000);

```

But…it’s a no go. ☹

Any ideas?