Textarea Component

richiemartin · Aug 11, 2004

Hi,
I am using the TextArea component (MX2004). I have set the html setting to true and have entered my text. However, despite numerous attempts with different bits of code, I can’t get the font to be veranda, 10pt and red. I thought this would be a straightforward process. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you for you time and help
rich

D2C · Aug 13, 2004

Rich,

You should try to get the text from an external txt file. There you specify the HTML tags.
When you load the text it will appear as regular text with the style that you defined in HTML.

Hope this helps,

greetz,
d2c

richiemartin · Aug 13, 2004

thats a great shout. i hadnt thought of that option.
thanks
rich

pixl8r · Aug 13, 2004

Everything here works. This is for a textArea on the _root timeline with the instance name "myText". Place the following on the main timeline "actions" layer (not on the component)

Code:

var styles = new TextField.StyleSheet();
styles.setStyle("body", 
  {fontFamily: 'Verdana', 
   fontSize: '10pt',
   fontStyle: 'italic',
   color: '#ff0000'}
);

	

myText.styleSheet = styles;
myText.html = true;
myText.text = "<body>This is my sample Text</body>";

Hope it helps.

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!

richiemartin · Aug 13, 2004

I was missing the "Body" part of the code. probably why wast working before. Fantastic, I now have the choice of which option to use. Thank you for all your help
rich

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