Hi Can someone please verify my understanding of this correctly.
I believe that the event is not firing on the deletion of text, as the docs suggest it will. According to the docs this event is supposed to fire: "when the user types, deletes, or pastes text into the control. " But, running the following simple chunk'o'code, and deleting text, shows the event doesn't fire on either backspace or delete: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute"> <mx:TextArea textInput="trace('textInput fired')" /> </mx:Application> I had a look at the code, and TextArea is simply rebroadcasting the event from textField, which we can't see as it's source is not available. If someone can confirm that this is a bug, I'll post it in the bug forums. (I don't suppose that it'll be fixed before release now though?) Cheers Marty