User Guide

TextFormat 699
bold (TextFormat.bold property)
public bold : Boolean
A Boolean value that specifies whether the text is boldface. The default value is null, which
indicates that the property is undefined. If the value is
true, the text is boldface.
Note: For Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai, this property works for paragraph-level formatting only.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0
Example
The following example creates a text field that includes characters in boldface.
var my_fmt:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
my_fmt.bold = true;
this.createTextField("my_txt", 1, 100, 100, 300, 100);
my_txt.multiline = true;
my_txt.wordWrap = true;
my_txt.border = true;
my_txt.text = "This is my text field object text";
my_txt.setTextFormat(my_fmt);
bullet (TextFormat.bullet property)
public bullet : Boolean
A Boolean value that indicates that the text is part of a bulleted list. In a bulleted list, each
paragraph of text is indented. To the left of the first line of each paragraph, a bullet symbol is
displayed. The default value is
null.
Note: For Flash Lite, this property works for embedded fonts only. This property is not
supported for Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0