Textfield.text - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference

TextField.text

Availability
Flash Player 6.
Usage
my_txt.text:String
Description
Property; indicates the current text in the text field. Lines are separated by the carriage return
character ('\r', ASCII 13). This property contains the normal, unformatted text in the text field,
without HTML tags, even if the text field is HTML.
Example
The following example creates an HTML text field called
formatted string of text to the field. When you trace the
displays the HTML-formatted string. When you trace the value of the
unformatted string with HTML tags displays in the Output panel.
this.createTextField("my_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 10, 400, 22);
my_txt.html = true;
my_txt.htmlText = "<b>Remember to always update the help panel.</b>";
trace("htmlText: "+my_txt.htmlText);
trace("text: "+my_txt.text);
/* output:
htmlText: <P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="12"
COLOR="#000000"><B>Remember to always update your help panel.</B></FONT></P>
text: Remember to always update your help panel.
*/
See also
TextField.htmlText
926 Chapter 2: ActionScript Language Reference
, and assigns an HTML-
my_txt
property, the Output panel
htmlText
property, the
text