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Example
The following example creates two text fields, one with tab stops every 40 pixels, and the
other with tab stops every 75 pixels.
this.createTextField("mytext",1,100,100,400,100);
mytext.border = true;
var myformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myformat.tabStops = [40,80,120,160];
mytext.text = "A\tB\tC\tD"; // \t is the tab stop character
mytext.setTextFormat(myformat);
this.createTextField("mytext2",2,100,220,400,100);
mytext2.border = true;
var myformat2:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myformat2.tabStops = [75,150,225,300];
mytext2.text ="A\tB\tC\tD";
mytext2.setTextFormat(myformat2);
target (TextFormat.target property)
public target : String
Indicates the target window where the hyperlink is displayed. If the target window is an empty
string, the text is displayed in the default target window _self. You can choose a custom
name or one of the following four names: _self specifies the current frame in the current
window, _blank specifies a new window, _parent specifies the parent of the current frame,
and _top specifies the top-level frame in the current window. If the TextFormat.url
property is an empty string or null, you can get or set this property, but the property will
have no effect.
Example
The following example creates a text field with a hyperlink to the Macromedia website. The
example uses TextFormat.target to display the Macromedia website in a new browser
window.
var myformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myformat.url = "http://www.macromedia.com";
myformat.target = "_blank";
this.createTextField("mytext",1,100,100,200,100);
mytext.multiline = true;
mytext.wordWrap = true;
mytext.border = true;
mytext.html = true;
mytext.text = "Go to Macromedia.com";
mytext.setTextFormat(myformat);
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