Leading (Textformat.leading Property); Leftmargin (Textformat.leftmargin Property) - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH LITE 2.X ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference

leading (TextFormat.leading property)

public leading : Number
An integer that represents the amount of vertical space in pixels (called leading) between lines.
The default value is , which indicates that the property is undefined.
null
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0
Example
The following example creates a text field and sets the leading to 10.
var my_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_fmt.leading = 10;
this.createTextField("my_txt", 1, 100, 100, 100, 100);
my_txt.multiline = true;
my_txt.wordWrap = true;
my_txt.border = true;
my_txt.text = "This is my first text field object text";
my_txt.setTextFormat(my_fmt);

leftMargin (TextFormat.leftMargin property)

public leftMargin : Number
The left margin of the paragraph, in points. The default value is , which indicates that
null
the property is undefined.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0
Example
The following example creates a text field and sets the left margin to 20 points.
this.createTextField("mytext",1,100,100,100,100);
mytext.multiline = true;
mytext.wordWrap = true;
mytext.border = true;
var myformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myformat.leftMargin = 20;
mytext.text = "this is my first text field object text";
mytext.setTextFormat(myformat);
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