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Font tag

The tag specifies a font or list of fonts to display the text.

The font tag supports the following attributes:

■ color Only hexadecimal color (#FFFFFF) values are supported. For example, the

following HTML code creates red text:

myText_txt.htmlText = "This is red text";

■ face Specifies the name of the font to use. As shown in the following example, you can

specify a list of comma-delimited font names, in which case Flash Player selects the first

available font:

myText_txt.htmlText = "Displays as

either Times or Times New Roman...";

If the specified font is not installed on the user’s computer system or isn’t embedded in the

SWF file, Flash Player selects a substitute font.

For more information on embedding fonts in Flash applications, see embedFonts

(TextField.embedFonts property) in the ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference and

“Setting dynamic and input text options” in Using Flash.

■ size Specifies the size of the font, in pixels, as shown in the following example:

myText_txt.htmlText = "This is blue, 24-

point text";

You can also use relative point sizes instead of a pixel size, such as +2 or -4.

Image tag

The <img> tag lets you embed external image files (JPEG, GIF, PNG), SWF files, and movie

clips inside text fields and TextArea component instances. Text automatically flows around

images you embed in text fields or components. To use this tag, you must set your dynamic or

input text field to be multiline and to wrap text.

To create a multiline text field with word wrapping, do one of the following:

■ In the Flash authoring environment, select a text field on the Stage and then, in the

Property inspector, select Multiline from the Text Type menu.

■For a text field created at runtime with createTextField (MovieClip.createTextField

method), set the new text field instance’s multiline (TextField.multiline property)

and multiline (TextField.multiline property) properties to

true.

The

<img> tag has one required attribute, src, which specifies the path to an image file, a

SWF file, or the linkage identifier of a movie clip symbol in the library. All other attributes

are optional.

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