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Using HTML-formatted text 443

To create a formatted table of data using tab stops:

1. Create a new Flash document, and save it as tabstops.fla.

2. In the Timeline, select the first frame on Layer 1.

3. Open the Actions panel (Window > Actions), and enter the following code in the

Actions panel:

// Create a new text field.

this.createTextField("table_txt", 99, 50, 50, 450, 100);

table_txt.multiline = true;

table_txt.html = true;

// Creates column headers, formatted in bold, separated by tabs.

var rowHeaders:String = "Name\tAge\tOccupation";

// Creates rows with data.

var row_1:String = "Rick\t33\tDetective";

var row_2:String = "AJ\t34\tDetective";

// Sets two tabstops, at 50 and 100 points.

table_txt.htmlText = "<textformat tabstops='[50,100]'>";

table_txt.htmlText += rowHeaders;

table_txt.htmlText += row_1;

table_txt.htmlText += row_2 ;

table_txt.htmlText += "</textformat>";

The use of the tab character escape sequence (\t) adds tabs between each column in the

table. You append text using the

+= operator.

4. Select Control > Test Movie to view the formatted table.

Underline tag

The tag underlines the tagged text, as shown in the following code:

This is underlined text.

This code would render as follows:

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