ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

TextField.html Property

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See Also

setInterval(), TextField.getNewTextFormat(), TextField.maxhscroll, TextField.scroll,

TextField.width, TextField.wordWrap, TextField._yscale, TextFormat.getTextExtent(); the

FScrollBar component in Appendix G

TextField.html Property

Boolean; enables or disables HTML display

Flash 6; accessible via authoring tool only in Flash 5

read/write

theField.html

Description

The Boolean html property indicates whether a field should render the contents of its

htmlText property as formatted HTML (true) or as plain text (false). It defaults to false.

To have an effect,

html must be true before htmlText is assigned. In Flash 5, HTML

provided the only means of achieving complex text formatting in a text field; as of Flash 6,

the TextFormat class offers object-oriented formatting control.

For more information, see

TextField.htmlText.

Example

The following code creates a text field that displays italicized text:

this.createTextField("theField_txt", 1, 0, 0, 200, 20);

theField_txt.html = true;

theField_txt.htmlText = '<I>This will display italicized text.</I>';

The text field displays:

This will display italicized text.

If line 2 were omitted, the text field would display:

<I>This will display italicized text.</I>

See Also

TextField.condenseWhite