ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

TextFormat.target Property

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// Restore the original tab stops.

format.tabStops = oldTabStops;

this.setNewTextFormat(format);

}

// Example use. Create an array that will become a table.

var tableData = ["one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven"];

// Create a text field to hold the table.

this.createTextField("theField_txt", 1, 0, 0, 250, 60);

theField_txt.border = true;

// Add some text and the table.

theField_txt.appendText("Here is the table:");

theField_txt.makeTable([50, 125, 200], tableData);

theField_txt.appendText("Isn't it pretty?");

See Also

String.fromCharCode(), TextField.replaceSel(), TextFormat.blockIndent, TextFormat.

leftMargin

TextFormat.target Property

specifies the window or frame for a hypertext link

Flash 6

read/write

theFormat.target

Description

The string target property specifies the name of the browser window or frame into which

to load the document at

theFormat.url. It can be a custom name or one of the four presets:

“

_blank”, “_parent”, “_self”, or “_top”. If theFormat.url is not specified, target has no

effect. Take special note that

url, and hence also target, works only when TextField.html

is set to true for the text field.

The

target property must be used in conjunction with the url property. To set the target

property for ...