TextArea.password

Availability

Flash Player 6.0.79.

Edition

Flash MX 2004.

Usage

textAreaInstance.password

Description

Property; a Boolean value indicating whether the text field is a password field (true) or not (false). If the value of password is true, the text field is a password text field and hides the input characters. If false, the text field is not a password text field. The default value is false.

Example

The following code makes the text field a password field that displays all characters as asterisks (*):

myTextArea.password = true;