User Guide

954 Chapter 2: ActionScript Language Reference

TextFormat.indent

Availability

Flash Player 6.

Usage

my_fmt.indent:Number

Description

Property; an integer that indicates the indentation from the left margin to the first character in

the paragraph. The default value is

null, which indicates that the property is undefined.

Example

The following example creates a text field and sets the indentation to 10.

this.createTextField("mytext",1,100,100,100,100);

mytext.multiline = true;

mytext.wordWrap = true;

mytext.border = true;

var myformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();

myformat.indent = 10;

mytext.text = "this is my first test field object text";

mytext.setTextFormat(myformat);