FLASH® LITE™ 2.x - Adobe Help and Support

Example
The following example creates an HTML text field called my_txt, and assigns an HTMLformatted
string of text to the field. When you trace the htmlText property, the Output panel
displays the HTML-formatted stringthe HTML-formatted string writes to the log file. When
you trace the value of the text property, the unformatted string with HTML tags appears in
the Output panel.When you trace the value of the text property, the unformatted string with
HTML tags writes to the log file.
this.createTextField("my_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 10, 400,
22);
my_txt.html = true;
my_txt.htmlText = "Remember to always update the help panel.";
trace("htmlText: "+my_txt.htmlText);
trace("text: "+my_txt.text);
// output:
htmlText:
Remember to always update your help panel.
text: Remember to always update your help panel.
See also
htmlText (TextField.htmlText property)
textColor (TextField.textColor property)
public textColor : Number
Indicates the color of the text in a text field. The hexadecimal color system uses six digits to
represent color values. Each digit has sixteen possible values or characters. The characters
range from 0 to 9 and then A to F. Black is represented by (#000000) and white, at the
opposite end of the color system, is (#FFFFFF).
Example
The following ActionScript creates a text field and changes its color property to red.
this.createTextField("my_txt", 99, 10, 10, 100, 300);
my_txt.text = "this will be red text";
my_txt.textColor = 0xFF0000;
textHeight (TextField.textHeight property)
public textHeight : Number
646 ActionScript classes