ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

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HTML Tag Support in Text Fields

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<TEXTFORMAT> (Formatting Support)

The <TEXTFORMAT> tag is a special Flash-only HTML extension used to implement the

TextFormat class’s paragraph formatting features in HTML syntax. Its attributes cor-

respond to the TextFormat class’s

leftMargin, rightMargin, blockIndent, indent,

leading, and tabStops properties, as follows:

LEFTMARGIN

Sets the left margin, in pixels, of the contained text. See

TextFormat.leftMargin.

RIGHTMARGIN

Sets the right margin, in pixels, of the contained text. See

TextFormat.

rightMargin

.

BLOCKINDENT

Sets the left indentation, in pixels, of the contained text. See

TextFormat.

blockIndent

.

INDENT

Sets the indentation, in pixels, for the first line of each contained paragraph. See

TextFormat.indent.

LEADING

Sets the space, in pixels, between lines of the contained text. See

TextFormat.

leading

.

TABSTOPS

Sets the horizontal tab stops for the contained text, as a comma-separated list of

nonnegative integers. See

TextFormat.tabStops.

The following code shows how to create a text field whose lines of text are separated

vertically by 10 pixels and whose paragraphs’ first lines are indented by 20 pixels:

this.createTextField("output_txt", 1, 0, 0, 100, 200);

output_txt.html = true;

output_txt.border = true;

output_txt.wordWrap = true;

output_txt.type ...