Daniel Tome’s blog

Textformat for input boxes

July 31st, 2007

I was having the following issue and I spent a lot of time figuring it out.

I had an Input Text and applied some formatting to it, using target.setTextFormat(format). But the format would only work if the textfield had some text in it.

I tried to “hack” around it and leave some text in it, then apply the textformat then remove the text. But when doing: target.text = “”; The formatting was also removed.

I’ve noticed that for “new text” that the user might input, you need to use: target.setNewTextFormat(format)

That worked like a charm, and all my input texts look like they’re supposed to.
I hope someone finds this useful.

Entry Filed under: Annoyances, Flash