Bold part of a textbox

[johnfn]

How do I only make some of the text in a textbox bold?

[johnfn]

Actually, just turning part of it a different color would be cool too, if bolding is impossible or something.

[ReNaeNae]

Select the text and... change it?

[johnfn]

Eh, it figures that I still wasn't clear enough. I mean, how do I bold it dynamically (with ActionScript) ?

[gankro]

well, if message length isn't variant then you can just have a seperate box for the bold section beyond that I'm pretty sure you have to use the api to create letters without a box.

[Theodor]

I am not quite sure about what you mean, you could try outline tool.

[authorblues]

At 6/8/08 01:17 PM, johnfn wrote: How do I only make some of the text in a textbox bold?

set the textbox's html property to true, and then make sure instead of setting textbox.text, you use textbox.htmltext. just use html like you normally would to make it bold.

textbox.html = true;
textbox.htmltext = "These words are <b>bold</b>.";

[gankro]

hmm... the more you know.

[GustTheASGuy]

At 6/8/08 02:44 PM, authorblues wrote: textbox.html = true;
textbox.htmltext = "These words are bold.";

I find it easier to use setTextStyle.

[johnfn]

At 6/8/08 02:44 PM, authorblues wrote: set the textbox's html property to true, and then make sure instead of setting textbox.text, you use textbox.htmltext. just use html like you normally would to make it bold.

textbox.html = true;
textbox.htmltext = "These words are bold.";

I knew it was something like this. Thank you. You are awesome.