Problem With Changing Properties of Custom TextField Class

programming flash
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I wrote a simple class called CustomTextField.as as follows:

package{

import flash.text.TextField;

public class CustomTextField extends TextField{

    private var custom_TextField:TextField=new TextField();

    public function CustomTextField(){
        initCustomTextField();
    }

    private function initCustomTextField():TextField{
        custom_TextField.background=true;
        custom_TextField.backgroundColor=0x333333;
        return custom_TextField;
    }

}

}

…and I am initiating it inside a document class as follows:

private var myTextField:CustomTextField = new CustomTextField();
myTextField.text=“Hello World!”
stage.addChild(myTextField);

It is not throwing an error but the background color is unchanged.

Can anyone answer this or help point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.