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Text object
Last updated 5/2/2011
Description
Property; a zero-based integer that specifies the end of a text subselection. For more information, see
text.selectionStart .
text.selectionStart
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
text.selectionStart
Description
Property; a zero-based integer that specifies the beginning of a text subselection. You can use this property with
text.selectionEnd to select a range of characters. Characters up to, but not including, text.selectionEnd are
selected. See text.selectionEnd .
• If there is an insertion point or no selection, text.selectionEnd is equal to text.selectionStart .
• If text.selectionStart is set to a value greater than text.selectionEnd , text.selectionEnd is set to
text.selectionStart , and no text is selected.
Example
The following example sets the start of the text subselection to the sixth character:
fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].selectionStart = 5;
The following example selects the characters Barbara from a text field that contains the text My name is Barbara
and formats them as bold and green:
fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].selectionStart = 11;
fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].selectionEnd = 18;
var s = fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].selectionStart;
var e = fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].selectionEnd;
fl.getDocumentDOM().setElementTextAttr('bold', true, s, e);
fl.getDocumentDOM().setElementTextAttr("fillColor", "#00ff00", s, e);
text.setTextAttr()
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
text.setTextAttr(attrName, attrValue [, startIndex [, endIndex]])
Parameters
attrName A string that specifies the name of the TextAttrs object property to change.
attrValue The value for the TextAttrs object property.