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theFormat.italic

Description

The Boolean italic property specifies whether characters are displayed in an italic typeface (true) or a regular (nonitalic) typeface (false).

To set italics for an entire text field, invoke TextField.setTextFormat( ) without specifying any index arguments:

this.createTextField("theField_txt", 1, 0, 0, 200, 20);
theField_txt.border = true;
theField_txt.text = "What a nice hat!"
// Create a TextFormat object
format = new TextFormat();
format.italic = true;
// Italicize the whole field
theField_txt.setTextFormat(format);

To set italics for a single character, apply the format with a single index argument:

theField_txt.setTextFormat(5, format); // Italicize the sixth character ("a").

To set italics for a range of characters, apply the format with start and end index arguments:

theField_txt.setTextFormat(7, 11, format);  // Italicize the characters at
                                            // indexes 7, 8, 9 and 10 ("nice")

The default italic value (as contained in the TextFormat object returned by TextField.getTextFormat( )) for a text field that contains text is false. For a text field without any text, the italic value is null. For a completely new TextFormat object, it is also null, indicating that italic will not be set when the format is applied to a text field:

trace(anyUnformattedField_txt.getTextFormat().italic);  // Displays: "false"
var format = new TextFormat();
trace(format.italic);                                   // Displays: "null"

See Also

TextFormat.bold

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