Problem with applying css to 'text area'-component

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Hello everybody!

I was wondering if there’s anyone who can help me out with this problem…
You see, I’m creating a guestbook where the entries are being loaded from a MySQL database into an text area component in flash mx 2004.
I just don’t know how to apply css to it.

The text component has the instance name ‘entries’

Here’s the code that is in a frame which loads all the entries to the text area:

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function loadEntries(act, increment) {
	 // Define NumLow as a Number
	num = new Number(_parent.NumLow);
	// Act accordingly
	if (act == "Next") {
		// Add increment
		_parent.NumLow = num+increment;
	} else if (act == "Previous") {
		_parent.NumLow = num-increment;
	} else {
		// Load default - i.e. 0
		_parent.NumLow = 0;
	}
	// Update Statistics
	_parent.read.low.text = _parent.NumLow;
	_parent.read.high.text = Number(_parent.NumLow)+10;
	// Show Please wait text
	_parent.read.entries.text = "Loading entries... Please wait...";
	// Begin Loading
	myEntries = new LoadVars();
	myEntries.ref = this;
	myEntries.load("GuestBook.php?action=read&r="+random(999)+"&NumLow="+_parent.NumLow);
	myEntries.onLoad = function(success) {
		if (success) {
			// Assign output to components and objects
			entries.text = this.entries;
			totalEntries.text = this.totalEntries;
			//Update values to calculate prev/next button visibility
			num = Number(_parent.NumLow);
			var totalEntries = Number(this.totalEntries);
			var total = num+increment;
			//Hide/show next button
			if (total<totalEntries) {
				this.ref.next_button._visible = true;
			} else {
				this.ref.next_button._visible = false;
			}
			//Hide/show previous button
			if (num == 0) {
				prev_button._visible = false;
			} else {
				prev_button._visible = true;
			}
		}
	};
}
// Load Default
_parent.read.loadEntries("Default", 10);
stop();

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