User Guide

704 ActionScript classes
indent (TextFormat.indent property)
public indent : Number
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.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0
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 text field object text";
mytext.setTextFormat(myformat);
See also
blockIndent (TextFormat.blockIndent property)
italic (TextFormat.italic property)
public italic : Boolean
A Boolean value that indicates whether text in this text format is italicized. The default value
is
null, which indicates that the property is undefined.
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 and sets the text style to italic.
this.createTextField("mytext",1,100,100,100,100);
mytext.multiline = true;
mytext.wordWrap = true;
mytext.border = true;
var myformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myformat.italic = true;
mytext.text = "This is my first text field object text";
mytext.setTextFormat(myformat);