Formatting text field using css

is there a way to format static text fields using css…

my static text field named “bodytext” already contains text…and on run time i load the css into a field new TextField.StyleSheet of instance name “cssformat”, after which i want to change the text format of the text field “bodytext” to the css class “bodytxt” contained in the css “css format”…but for this am unable to find any documentation any where so kindly tell me if its possible…

Thanx in advance