User Guide

Formatting text with Cascading Style Sheets 227
• “Using style classes” on page 231
• “Styling built-in HTML tags” on page 231
• “An example of using styles with HTML” on page 232
• “Using styles to define new tags” on page 234
• “An example of using styles with XML” on page 235
Supported CSS properties
Flash Player supports a subset of properties in the original CSS1 specification (www.w3.org/TR/
REC-CSS1). The following table shows the supported CSS properties and values as well as their
corresponding ActionScript property names. (Each ActionScript property name is derived from
the corresponding CSS property name; the hyphen is omitted and the subsequent character
is capitalized.)
CSS property ActionScript property Usage and supported values
text-align textAlign Recognized values are
left, center, and right.
font-size fontSize Only the numeric part of the value is used. Units (px, pt)
are not parsed; pixels and points are equivalent.
text-decoration textDecoration Recognized values are
none and underline.
margin-left marginLeft Only the numeric part of the value is used. Units (px, pt)
are not parsed; pixels and points are equivalent.
margin-right marginRight Only the numeric part of the value is used. Units (px, pt)
are not parsed; pixels and points are equivalent.
font-weight fontWeight Recognized values are
normal and bold.
font-style fontStyle Recognized values are
normal and italic.
text-indent textIndent Only the numeric part of the value is used. Units (px, pt)
are not parsed; pixels and points are equivalent.
font-family fontFamily A comma-separated list of fonts to use, in descending
order of desirability. Any font family name can be used.
If you specify a generic font name, it will be converted
to an appropriate device font. The following font
conversions are available:
mono is converted to
_typewriter, sans-serif is converted to _sans, and
serif is converted to _serif.
color color Only hexadecimal color values are supported. Named
colors (such as
blue) are not supported. Colors are
written in the following format:
#FF0000.
display display Supported values are
inline, block, and none.