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TextAttrs object
Description
Property; a Boolean value that determines whether Flash uses (
true ) or ignores ( false ) pair kerning information in
the font(s) when it kerns the text.
Example
The following example selects the characters from index 2 up to, but not including, index 6 and sets the
autoKern
property to true :
fl.getDocumentDOM().setTextSelection(3, 6);
fl.getDocumentDOM().setElementTextAttr('autoKern', true);
textAttrs.bold
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
textAttrs.bold
Description
Property; a Boolean value. A value of
true causes text to appear with the bold version of the font.
Example
The following example selects the first character of the selected Text object and sets the
bold property to true :
fl.getDocumentDOM().setTextSelection(0, 1);
fl.getDocumentDOM().setElementTextAttr('bold', true);
textAttrs.characterPosition
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
textAttrs.characterPosition
Description
Property; a string that determines the baseline for the text. Acceptable values are
"normal" , "subscript" , and
"superscript" . This property applies only to static text.
Example
The following example selects the characters from index 2 up to, but not including, index 6 of the selected text field
and sets the
characterPosition property to subscript :
fl.getDocumentDOM().setTextSelection(2, 6);
fl.getDocumentDOM().setElementTextAttr("characterPosition", "subscript");