| TextFormat.bold Property | Flash 6 |
| Boolean; specifies bold character display | read/write | Description The Boolean bold property specifies whether characters are displayed in a bold typeface (true) or a regular (nonbold) typeface (false). To set bolding 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 = "Press any key." // Create a TextFormat object format = new TextFormat(); format.bold = true; // Bold the whole field theField_txt.setTextFormat(format); To set bolding for a single character, apply the format with a single index argument: theField_txt.setTextFormat(1, format); // Bold the second character ("r") To set bolding for a range of characters, apply the format using start and end index arguments: theField_txt.setTextFormat(6, 9, format); // Bold the characters at // indexes 6, 7, and 8 ("any") The default bold 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 bold value is null. For a completely new TextFormat object, it is also null, indicating that bold will not be set when the format is applied to a text field: trace(anyUnformattedField_txt.getTextFormat().bold); // Displays: "false" var format = new TextFormat(); trace(format.bold); // Displays: "null" See Also TextFormat.italic | 
