It's SO easy to style a hyperlink in Flex

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package flashx.textLayout.elements.examples {
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.text.engine.FontPosture;
    import flash.text.engine.Kerning;
    
    import flashx.textLayout.container.ContainerController;
    import flashx.textLayout.edit.SelectionFormat;
    import flashx.textLayout.edit.SelectionManager;
    import flashx.textLayout.elements.Configuration;
    import flashx.textLayout.elements.LinkElement;
    import flashx.textLayout.elements.ParagraphElement;
    import flashx.textLayout.elements.SpanElement;
    import flashx.textLayout.elements.TextFlow;
    import flashx.textLayout.formats.TextAlign;
    import flashx.textLayout.formats.TextDecoration;
    import flashx.textLayout.formats.TextLayoutFormat;

    public class ConfigurationExample extends Sprite
    {
        public function ConfigurationExample()
        {    
            //create container for the text and add to stage
            var textContainer:Sprite = new Sprite();
            textContainer.x = 50;
            textContainer.y = 20;
            this.stage.addChild( textContainer );
            
            // create Configuration, set properties for it and add to TextFlow
            var config:Configuration = new Configuration();
            var textLayoutFormat:TextLayoutFormat = new TextLayoutFormat();
            textLayoutFormat.fontFamily = "Arial, Helvetica, _sans";
            textLayoutFormat.fontSize = 16;
            textLayoutFormat.kerning = Kerning.ON;
            textLayoutFormat.fontStyle = FontPosture.ITALIC;
            textLayoutFormat.textAlign = TextAlign.CENTER;
            config.textFlowInitialFormat = textLayoutFormat;
            var linkNormalFormat:TextLayoutFormat = new TextLayoutFormat();
            // make links red and underlined
            linkNormalFormat.color = 0xFF0000;
            linkNormalFormat.textDecoration = TextDecoration.UNDERLINE;
            config.defaultLinkNormalFormat = linkNormalFormat;
            // set selection color to light blue
              var selectionFormat:SelectionFormat = new SelectionFormat(0x333300);
              config.focusedSelectionFormat = selectionFormat;
            var textFlow:TextFlow = new TextFlow(config);
            // make text selectable
            var selectionManager:SelectionManager = new SelectionManager();
            textFlow.interactionManager = selectionManager;
            
            // create paragraph, a span of text, and a link
            var p:ParagraphElement = new ParagraphElement();
            var span:SpanElement = new SpanElement();
            var linkSpan:SpanElement = new SpanElement();
            var link:LinkElement = new LinkElement();
            link.href = "http://www.adobe.com";
            linkSpan.text = "Adobe's website";
            link.addChild(linkSpan);
            span.text = "The best place to go for information about Adobe products is: ";
            
            // Add span and link to paragraph; add paragraph to TextFlow
            p.addChild(span);
            p.addChild(link);
            textFlow.addChild(p);
            
            // Add a controller for the container; specify container width and height
            textFlow.flowComposer.addController(new ContainerController(textContainer, 80, 300));
            textFlow.flowComposer.updateAllControllers(); 
        }
    }
}

Only 45 lines of code to do this REALLY?