User Guide

928 Chapter 2: ActionScript Language Reference

TextField.textHeight

Availability

Flash Player 6.

Usage

my_txt.textHeight:Number

Description

Property; indicates the height of the text.

Example

The following example creates a text field, and assigns a string of text to the field. A trace

statement is used to display the text height and width in the Output panel. The

autoSize

property is then used to resize the text field, and the new height and width will also be displayed

in the Output panel.

this.createTextField("my_txt", 99, 10, 10, 100, 300);

my_txt.text = "Sample text";

trace("textHeight: "+my_txt.textHeight+", textWidth: "+my_txt.textWidth);

trace("_height: "+my_txt._height+", _width: "+my_txt._width+"\n");

my_txt.autoSize = true;

trace("after my_txt.autoSize = true;");

trace("_height: "+my_txt._height+", _width: "+my_txt._width);

Which outputs the following information:

textHeight: 15, textWidth: 56

_height: 300, _width: 100

after my_txt.autoSize = true;

_height: 19, _width: 60