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, and 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 (like blue) are not supported.

display

display

Supported values are inline, block, and none.