User Guide
TextArea.length 1193
Example
The following example makes the TextArea called my_ta an HTML text area and then
formats the text with HTML tags.
You must first add an instance of the TextArea component to the Stage and name it my_ta;
then add the following code to Frame 1:
/**
Requires:
- TextArea instance on Stage (instance name: my_ta)
*/
var my_ta:mx.controls.TextArea;
my_ta.setSize(320, 240);
my_ta.html = true;
my_ta.text = "The <b>Royal</b> Nonesuch";
TextArea.length
Availability
Flash Player 6 (6.0.79.0).
Edition
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
textAreaInstance.length
Description
Property (read-only); indicates the number of characters in a text area. This property returns
the same value as the ActionScript
text.length property, but is faster. A character such as
tab (
"\t") counts as one character. The default value is 0.
Example
The following example accesses the length property to display the number of characters that
the user types in the TextArea called
my_ta.