  *  Mobile theme. It handles displaying and editing the text.
  *  (The skin also handles drawing the border and background.)
  *  This RichEditableText or StyleableStageText instance can be accessed as the <code>textDisplay</code>
- *  object.</p>
- *
- *  <p>As a result of its RichEditableText using TLF, the Spark TextInput control
- *  supports displaying left-to-right (LTR) text, such as French,
+ *  object.  For the mobile theme, if you wish to use the TextField-based skin, rather than the
+ *  StageText-based skin, set the <code>skinClass</code> property to
+ *  <code>"spark.skins.mobile.TextInputSkin"</code>.</p>
+ *
+ *  <p>For the Spark theme, as a result of its RichEditableText using TLF, 
+ *  the Spark TextInput control supports displaying left-to-right (LTR) text, such as French,
  *  right-to-left (RTL) text, such as Arabic, and bidirectional text
  *  such as a French phrase inside of an Arabic one.
  *  If the predominant text direction is right-to-left,

 *        </tr>
 *     </table>
 *
 *  @includeExample examples/TextInputExample.mxml
 *
 *  @mxml

 *  <a href="http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS4bebcd66a74275c3-fc6548e124e49b51c4-8000.html">
 *  Custom Spark item renderers</a>. </p>
 *
 *  <p>For the Spark theme, the TextInput control has the following default characteristics:</p>
 *     <table class="innertable">
 *        <tr>
 *           <th>Characteristic</th>
