title: styling <a> tag and <b> tag in text control.htmlText using css
body: <p>I've got this mxml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute"&gt;
      &lt;mx:htmlText&gt;
          &lt;![CDATA[
              &lt;a href="foo"&gt;link me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;bold me&lt;/b&gt;
          ]]&gt;
          &lt;/mx:htmlText&gt;
      &lt;/mx:Text&gt;
  &lt;/mx:Application&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>(In reality, the html content is coming from an xml file.) I want to give the link a color. So I've got this in my css file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>a { color:#339900; }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I get a warning: "The CSS type selector 'a' was not processed, because the type was not used in the application."</p>
  
  <p>I also tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>a:link { color:#339900; }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and the warning changes to: "CSS selector condition type is not supported: ':link'</p>
  
  <p>According to the <a href="http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=textcontrols_04.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">live docs</a>, it seems like I should be able to do both things. What am I missing?</p>
  
  <hr>
  
  <p>Also I'm using a font that has no bold, but I want to use the <code>fontThickness</code> property to create one. I've got it working when I apply it to an entire object or class, thus:</p>
  
  <pre><code>.thickenMe { fontThickness: 150; }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to apply it to the [b] tag, but I'm getting similar warnings as with the [a].</p>