Indent (Textformat.indent Property); Italic (Textformat.italic Property) - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH LITE 2.X ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference

indent (TextFormat.indent property)

public indent : Number
An integer that indicates the indentation from the left margin to the first character in the
paragraph. The default value is
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0
Example
The following example creates a text field and sets the indentation to 10:
this.createTextField("mytext",1,100,100,100,100);
mytext.multiline = true;
mytext.wordWrap = true;
mytext.border = true;
var myformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myformat.indent = 10;
mytext.text = "this is my first text field object text";
mytext.setTextFormat(myformat);
See also
blockIndent (TextFormat.blockIndent property)

italic (TextFormat.italic property)

public italic : Boolean
A Boolean value that indicates whether text in this text format is italicized. The default value
is , which indicates that the property is undefined.
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Note: For Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai, this property works for paragraph-level formatting only.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0
Example
The following example creates a text field and sets the text style to italic.
this.createTextField("mytext",1,100,100,100,100);
mytext.multiline = true;
mytext.wordWrap = true;
mytext.border = true;
var myformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myformat.italic = true;
mytext.text = "This is my first text field object text";
mytext.setTextFormat(myformat);
704 ActionScript classes
, which indicates that the property is undefined.
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