User Guide

300 Chapter 3: Objects
textAttrs.aliasText
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
textAttrs.aliasText
Description
Property; a Boolean value that specifies that Flash should draw the text using a method optimized
for increasing the legibility of small text.
Example
The following example sets the aliasText property to true for all the text in the currently
selected text field:
fl.getDocumentDOM().setElementTextAttr('aliasText', true);
textAttrs.alignment
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
textAttrs.alignment
Description
Property; a string that specifies paragraph justification. Acceptable values are "left", "center",
"right", and "justify".
Example
The following example sets the paragraphs that contain characters between index 0 up to, but not
including, index 3 to justify. This can affect characters outside the specified range if they are in
the same paragraph.
fl.getDocumentDOM().setTextSelection(0, 3);
fl.getDocumentDOM().setElementTextAttr('alignment', 'justify');
textAttrs.autoKern
Availability
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
textAttrs.autoKern
Description
Property; a Boolean value that determines whether Flash uses (true) or ignores (false) pair
kerning information in the font(s) to kern the text.