Paul, That color is just the default that come from Adobe Flex in general for hyperlinks. To fix that you will have to modify the UIManager.as.UNTESTED changes: //Style RichEditableText
if (numberOfStyleColors > 4)
{
var cssStyleDeclarationRET:CSSStyleDeclaration = new CSSStyleDeclaration();
cssStyleDeclarationRET.setStyle("focusedTextSelectionColor", rolloverColor);
cssStyleDeclarationRET.setStyle("unfocusedTextSelectionColor", rolloverColor);
cssStyleDeclarationPopUpRendererLink.setStyle("linkActiveColor", titleColor);
cssStyleDeclarationPopUpRendererLink.setStyle("linkNormalColor", textColor);
cssStyleDeclarationPopUpRendererLink.setStyle("linkHoverColor", titleColor);
topLevelStyleManager.setStyleDeclaration("spark.components.RichEditableText", cssStyleDeclarationRET, false);
var cssStyleDeclarationTI:CSSStyleDeclaration = new CSSStyleDeclaration();
cssStyleDeclarationTI.setStyle("chromeColor", textColor);
topLevelStyleManager.setStyleDeclaration("spark.components.TextInput", cssStyleDeclarationTI, false);
topLevelStyleManager.setStyleDeclaration("spark.components.TextArea", cssStyleDeclarationTI, false);
topLevelStyleManager.setStyleDeclaration("mx.controls.TextInput", cssStyleDeclarationTI, false);
topLevelStyleManager.setStyleDeclaration("mx.controls.TextArea", cssStyleDeclarationTI, false);
topLevelStyleManager.setStyleDeclaration("mx.controls.VSlider", cssStyleDeclarationTI, false);
topLevelStyleManager.setStyleDeclaration("spark.components.VSlider", cssStyleDeclarationTI, false);
topLevelStyleManager.setStyleDeclaration("mx.controls.HSlider", cssStyleDeclarationTI, false);
topLevelStyleManager.setStyleDeclaration("spark.components.HSlider", cssStyleDeclarationTI, false);
}