[flexcoders] Changing the color of a textinput

[timgerr]

I am creating an textinput and I was wondering how to change the color
of it.  I am doing this dynamically, here is what I am doing:
private var txt:TextInput = new TextInput();
txt.maxChars = 255;
addChild(txt);

There is no option to change the color, do I have to use css to do this?

Thanks,
timgerr