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TextField.getTextFormat()

Availability

Flash Player 6.

Usage

my_txt.getTextFormat()
my_txt.getTextFormat(index)
my_txt.getTextFormat(beginIndex, endIndex)

Parameters

index An integer that specifies a character in a string.

beginIndex, endIndex Integers that specify the starting and ending locations of a span of text within my_txt.

Returns

An object.

Description

Method; Usage 1: returns a TextFormat object containing formatting information for all text in a text field. Only properties that are common to all text in the text field are set in the resulting TextFormat object. Any property which is mixed, meaning that it has different values at different points in the text, has its value set to null.

Usage 2: Returns a TextFormat object containing a copy of the text field's text format at index.

Usage 3: Returns a TextFormat object containing formatting information for the span of text from beginIndex to endIndex.

See also

TextField.getNewTextFormat(), TextField.setNewTextFormat(), TextField.setTextFormat()

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