User Guide

926 Chapter 2: 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 my_txt, and assigns an HTML-

formatted string of text to the field. When you trace the

htmlText property, the Output panel

displays the HTML-formatted string. When you trace the value of the

text property, 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 = "Remember to always update the help panel.";

trace("htmlText: "+my_txt.htmlText);

trace("text: "+my_txt.text);

/* output:

htmlText: <FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="12"

COLOR="#000000">Remember to always update your help panel.

text: Remember to always update your help panel.