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Chapter 45: 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.

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