Property summary
The following table lists the properties that are partially supported when using ActionScript
2.0 to create Flash content.
Property
bold
bullet
color
font
italic
size
tabStops
underline
Description
A Boolean value that specifies whether the text is
boldface.
Limitations: For use only with paragraph-level
formatting; you cannot apply bold to individual
characters.
A Boolean value that indicates that the text is part
of a bulleted list.
Limitations: For use only with embedded fonts.
Indicates the color of text.
Limitations: For use only with paragraph-level
formatting; you cannot apply color to individual
characters.
The name of the font for text in this text format, as
a string.
Limitations: For Flash Lite, this property works for
embedded fonts only. This property is not
supported for Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai.
A Boolean value that indicates whether text in this
text format is italic.
Limitations: For use only with paragraph-level
formatting; you cannot apply italics to individual
characters.
The point size of text in this text format.
Limitations: For use only with paragraph-level
formatting; you cannot apply different font sizes to
individual characters.
Specifies custom tab stops as an array of non-
negative integers.
Limitations: For use with embedded fonts only.
A Boolean value that indicates whether the text
that uses this text format is underlined (
(
).
false
Limitations: For use only with paragraph-level
formatting.
Support
Partially
supported
Partially
supported
Partially
supported
Partially
supported
Partially
supported
Partially
supported
Partially
supported
Partially
) or not
supported
true
TextFormat class
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