Comments on: [AS 3] CSS and Flash: Adding Styles to a Text Field

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:16:32 +0000

I used this outside of a package and it works wonderfully.
I had been trying to use cssParse for three days before I came across you post here. I this way just makes the most sense.
Thank you thank you thank you!

By: jayesh

jayesh — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:03:11 +0000

how about embedded fonts? does it work the same?

By: kevin ready

kevin ready — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:05:36 +0000

Hey, you have an error in your code: you wrap the SPAN contents with double quotes (”) and use the same types of quotes to refer to your CLASS attribute. One or the other needs to be single quotation, or the inner needs to have \”

By: montana

montana — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:58:31 +0000

the htmlText stuff in flash is definitely weird for how cool it is to even be available at all…

this seems to work for me for the majority of implementations…

public function getTextField():TextField { //defaults
var oTextField:TextField = new TextField();
var sCSS:String=”p{display:block;align:left;font-family:Verdana;leading:6px;font-size:12px;color:#808080}”;
var oStyle:StyleSheet=new StyleSheet();
oStyle.parseCSS(sCSS);
oTextField.styleSheet = oStyle; //this.oStyleSheet;
oTextField.wordWrap = true;
oTextField.embedFonts = true; //make sure this font is embedded in a textfield on the stage (out of view) and it will work every time. be sure to embed every glyph necessary for your application – usually basic set punctuation and latin 1 extended and such…
return oTextField;
}
/*****************************************************/

hope it helps.

By: MikeS

MikeS — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:54:13 +0000

Hey, I’m having a very similar problem. I went about my a little bit differently. I’m loading an external HTML and CSS. Everything checks out fine and i’m not getting any errors, but it just will not format the text!

What can cause flash to ignore a stylesheet???
Thanks!!

Mike S

By: admin

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:00:51 +0000

Hey Paul, I am currently on vacation .. will be back on town on Thursday – if this issue isn’t resolved at that point feel free to post another comment here or email me as a reminder – can you post your files somewhere so it can be downloaded?

Thanks, Morgan

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:35:08 +0000

grrrr… Sorry, i don’t know how to add html code here :/
I’ll try again

…
For example (in XML file): “After these words comma appearRest of the text.”
…

Thanks

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:22:54 +0000

Could you help me with the problem above ?
Thanks very much

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:20:09 +0000

Hello!
Great work!
I have a strange problem with a styled textField and a htmlText loaded from XML file. I get a comma sign in SWF after a word in span.
For example (in XML file): “After these words comma appearRest of the text.”
In pure AS3 (like in your example) everything is OK.

By: cmdrhlm

cmdrhlm — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:52:38 +0000

I can’t get it to work. I’ve done everything to the letter.
I don’t get any error’s, it simply won’t apply itself, so the text comes out unformatted.
This is what I have so far.

var css:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
var header:Object = new Object();
header.fontsize = 20;
header.fontweight = “bold”;
header.colour = “red”;
css.setStyle(”.header”, header);

var txtField:TextField = new TextField();
txtField.multiline = true;
txtField.wordWrap = true;
txtField.styleSheet = css;
txtField.x = 200;
txtField.htmlText = “”;
txtField.htmlText += i.getName();
txtField.htmlText += “”;

Please, please, please reply. I’ve tried many different ways of formatting the text, but none of them seem to stick. There must be something really basic I’m missing.

-c