TextField.border Property

	ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition By Colin Moock
	Chapter 18.  ActionScript Language Reference

TextField.border Property

Flash 5

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Boolean; turns text field border on and offFlash 6; accessible only via authoring tool in Flash 4 and

read/write

theField.border

Description

The Boolean border property specifies whether to show an outline around theField's bounding rectangle (true) or not (false). The outline color is specified by borderColor (defaults to black). To change the size of the rectangle, use the _width and _height properties. To add a background color to the rectangle, use the background and backgroundColor properties.

To produce a more elaborate background for a text field, set background and border to false, and manually draw a shape behind the text field.

Example

Put a black border on theField_txt:

this.createTextField("theField_txt", 1, 0, 0, 80, 20); theField_txt.border = true; theField_txt.text = "hello world";

Now make the border blue:

theField_txt.borderColor = 0x0000FF;

See Also

TextField.background, TextField.backgroundColor, TextField.borderColor, TextField. _height, TextField._width