ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

TextFormat.blockIndent Property

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text, the align value is null. For a completely new TextFormat object, it is also null, indi-

cating that

align will not be set when the format is applied to a text field:

trace(anyUnformattedField_txt.getTextFormat().align); // Displays: "left"

var format = new TextFormat();

trace(format.align); // Displays: "null"

See Also

TextField.wordWrap, TextFormat.blockIndent, TextFormat.indent, TextFormat.leftMargin,

TextFormat.rightMargin

TextFormat.blockIndent Property

specifies paragraph indentation

Flash 6

read/write

theFormat.blockIndent

Description

The integer blockIndent property specifies the distance a paragraph is indented from the

text field’s left border, in pixels. Paragraphs are spans of text separated by line characters

specified in code (

\n, <BR>,ornewline). To set the indentation for an entire text field,

invoke TextField.setTextFormat() without specifying any index arguments:

this.createTextField("theField_txt", 1, 0, 0, 200, 60);

theField_txt.border = true;

theField_txt.text = "This is paragraph one.\nThis is paragraph two."

// Create a TextFormat object

format = new TextFormat();

format.blockIndent = 30;

// Block-indent the whole field

theField_txt.setTextFormat(format);

To set the indentation for the first paragraph ...