TextAttrs object

Availability

Flash MX 2004.

Description

The TextAttrs object contains all the properties of text that can be applied to a subselection. This object is a property of the TextRun object (textRun.textAttrs).

Property summary

The following properties are available for the TextAttrs object:

Property

Description

textAttrs.aliasText

A Boolean value that specifies that Flash should draw the text using a method optimized for increasing the legibility of small text.

textAttrs.alignment

A string that specifies paragraph justification. Acceptable values are "left", "center", "right", and "justify".

textAttrs.autoKern

A Boolean value that determines whether Flash uses (true) or ignores (false) pair kerning information in the font(s) to kern the text.

textAttrs.bold

A Boolean value. A value of true causes text to appear with the bold version of the font.

textAttrs.characterPosition

A string that determines the baseline for the text.

textAttrs.characterSpacing

Deprecated in favor of textAttrs.letterSpacing. An integer that represents the space between characters.

textAttrs.face

A string that represents the name of the font, such as "Arial".

textAttrs.fillColor

A string, hexadecimal value, or integer that represents the fill color.

textAttrs.indent

An integer that specifies paragraph indentation.

textAttrs.italic

A Boolean value. A value of true causes text to appear with the italic version of the font.

textAttrs.leftMargin

An integer that specifies the paragraph’s left margin.

textAttrs.letterSpacing

An integer that represents the space between characters.

textAttrs.lineSpacing

An integer that specifies the line spacing (leading) of the paragraph

textAttrs.rightMargin

An integer that specifies the paragraph’s right margin.

textAttrs.rotation

A Boolean value. A value of true causes Flash to rotate the characters of the text 90°. The default value is false.

textAttrs.size

An integer that specifies the size of the font.

textAttrs.target

A string that represents the target property of the text field.

textAttrs.url

A string that represents the URL property of the text field.