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I am trying to set the header styles of a data grid. I want them to be different from the style I use with the data in the grid. I look in the Flash help to see how to do it. It seems pretty straight forward:

Customizing the DataGrid component

You can set header styles through headerStyle, which is a style property itself. To do this, you create an instance of CSSStyleDeclaration, set the appropriate properties on that instance for the header, and then assign the CSSStyleDeclaration to the headerStyle property, as shown in the following example.

Actionscript:

import mx.styles.CSSStyleDeclaration;
var headerStyles = new CSSStyleDeclaration();
headerStyles.setStyle("fontStyle", "italic");
grid.setStyle("headerStyle", headerStyles);

Now if you try something like this, you will get errors saying that there is no method with the name 'setStyle'. So I go check out mx.styles.CSSStyleDeclaration AS file and Flash is right. There is not mehod called setStyle in CSSStyleDeclaration.as. There is a getStyle method though. Is it just me or does this seem really retarded?