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theField.removeTextField()

Description

When theField is a text field created at runtime with MovieClip.createTextField( ), the removeTextField( ) method deletes theField and removes its associated visual representation from the screen. Subsequent references to theField or any of its properties or methods yield undefined. When theField is a text field created at authoring time with the Text tool, removeTextField( ) has no effect. To remove an authoring time text field, place it in a movie clip and remove the entire clip with MovieClip.removeMovieClip( ).

Example

// Make a text field
this.createTextField("theField_txt", 1, 0, 0, 200, 20);
// Then sometime later...delete the text field
theField_txt.removeTextField();

See Also

MovieClip.createTextField( ), MovieClip.removeMovieClip( )

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