One great thing about Flex is the ability to create your own custom components of whatever the framework left out. One simple component that would have served the framework nicely was a LinkLabel of some sorts. Something that creates a standard link that everyone is use to rather than that ugly LinkButton. Users are familiar with traditional links, and they expect to see those for links. For that, I have created a custom LinkLabel component, which acts like a typical href. It doesn’t have all the functionality of href, but I may include that later.

An example (with source) can be viewed here.