text.setTextAttr()

#### Availability

Flash MX 2004.

#### Usage

text.setTextAttr(attrName, attrValue [, startIndex [, endIndex]])

#### Parameters

attrName A string that specifies the name of the TextAttrs object property to change.

attrValue The value for the TextAttrs object property.
For a list of possible values for attrName and attrValue, see the Property summary for the TextAttrs object (../TextAttrs_object/textAttrs_summary.md).

startIndex An integer that is the index (zero-based) of the first character in the array. This parameter is optional.

endIndex An integer that specifies the index of the end point in the selected text string, which starts at startIndex and goes up to, but does not include, endIndex. This parameter is optional.

#### Returns

Nothing.

#### Description

Method; sets the attribute specified by the attrName parameter associated with the text identified by startIndex and endIndex to the value specified by attrValue. This method can be used to change attributes of text that might span TextRun elements (see TextRun object (../TextRun_object/textRun_summary.md)), or that are portions of existing TextRun elements. Using it may change the position and number of TextRun elements within this object’s text.textRuns array (see text.textRuns (../Text_object/text27.md)).

If you omit the optional parameters, the method uses the entire Text object’s character range. If you specify only startIndex, the range is a single character at that position. If you specify both startIndex and endIndex, the range starts from startIndex and goes up to, but does not include, the character located at endIndex.

#### Example

The following example sets the selected text field to italic:

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fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].setTextAttr("italic", true);

 

The following example sets the size of the third character to 10:

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fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].setTextAttr("size", 10, 2);

 

The following example sets the color to red for the third through the eighth character of the selected text:

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fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0].setTextAttr("fillColor", 0xff0000, 2, 8);