| TextFormat.color Property | Flash 6 |
| specifies character color | read/write | Description The integer color property specifies the color of characters using RGB hexadecimal triplet notation 0xRRGGBB, where RR, GG, and BB are two-digit hex numbers representing Red, Green, and Blue. For example, the following sets color to red: theFormat.color = 0xFF0000; For a complete discussion of RGB triplet notation, see the Color class. To set the color of 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 = "Play with color." // Create a TextFormat object format = new TextFormat(); format.color = 0xFF0000; // Make the whole field red theField_txt.setTextFormat(format); Alternatively, use the convenient TextField.textColor property directly on the field, without a TextFormat object: theField_txt.textColor = 0xFF0000; To set the color of a single character, apply the format with a single index argument: theField_txt.setTextFormat(0, format); // Make the first character red To set the color of a range of characters, apply the format with start and end index arguments: theField_txt.setTextFormat(10, 15, format); // Set red for characters 10, // 11, 12, 13, and 14 ("color") The default color value (as contained in the TextFormat object returned by TextField.getTextFormat( )) for a text field that contains text is 0 (black). For a text field without any text, the color value is null. For a completely new TextFormat object, it is also null, indicating that color will not be set when the format is applied to a text field: trace(anyUnformattedField_txt.getTextFormat().color); // Displays: 0 var format = new TextFormat(); trace(format.color); // Displays: "null" See Also The Color class , TextField.textColor | 
