This might be a stupid question but new to flex so please go easy!

I want to use a flex drop down feild that contains icons that related to the
status of a record as this will also be useful as an icon key. I have a list of
records with checkboxes next to them (think hotmail list view) and I want to do
a batch update on selected records.

I have built the flex drop down field with icons but I want to know is it
possible to include this felx field as part of a normal html form and somehow
get the selected value out of it when the html form is submitted (so I can
batch update the selected records with the selected value from the drop down
list).

Hope that made sense

well, if you use a hidden html element and use ExternalInterface class from
Flex to set the selected value to/from flex dropdown to this hidden field, yes
you can!

So, page renders and you call a javascript that tells the flex dropdown to
select a value.

User changes selection of the dropdown, flex calls a javascript function to
update the hidden field.

You submit the form, hidden fields gets submitted.

ATTA

Awesome, all sounds perfectly sensible, will have a bash at it, thanks