As an additional note, setting the backgroundColor style of the Tree has no effect. Setting backgroundAlpha to 0 does hide it, but also hides the background colors of the Tree items as stipulated in the depthColors array.
-----Original Message----- From: Battershall, Jeff Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 9:19 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Tree Background Oddity - GMC2 I've got a tree acting as menu for an application inside a panel. The tree dataprovider is an XMLListCollection generated from a db call. I've set the height of the tree to take up all the available vertical space in the panel, so that there's no scrollbars when the user expands a node. When it renders, there's a black area below the top level nodes. I'm thinking these are the default itemRenderers which have no content until tree nodes are expanded. But why are they visible at all? I didn't see this behavior in Flex 2, just the GMCs. Jeff Battershall Application Architect Dow Jones Indexes [EMAIL PROTECTED] (609) 520-5637 (p) (484) 477-9900 (c)