Flash CS4 Resources

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);