Actionscript Cookbook

8.3. Creating an Outline Around a Text Field

Problem

You want to make a border around a text field.

Solution

Set the text field’s border property to true. Additionally, you can change the color of the border by setting the object’s borderColor property.

Discussion

By default, a text field lacks a visible border, which may be desirable. For example, you may not want a border around an item label. However, user input fields have borders by convention. The border shows the user where to click to input a value. Simply setting a text field’s border property to true turns on the border around the object.

myTextField.border = true;

To turn off the border, simply set the border property to false.

The default border color is black but can be changed by setting the borderColor property, which accepts a hex RGB value corresponding to the desired color:

myTextField.borderColor = 0xFF00FF;  // Make the border violet.

See Also

Recipe 3.2 and Recipe 8.4