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Two different colors and fonts in the same textarea

Hi,

Im trying to print out an dynamic text that I have combined from two var.
Example:

var text1 = "text number 1";
var text2 = "text number 2";

var combined = text1 + text2;

t.icon.testText.text = combined;

Now I want to set text1 to have one font size and color and text2 another.

Is it possible to do something like var combined = text1 + " " + text2 +"";
I don't thinks

The whole thing is going into a textarea that I don't at the moment put in by code. But i would like that but when I tried it did not work and the text was distorted when I was animating it.

Bradley Haynes

All the direction you may need to modify text in Macromedia:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/css_forms.html

stalbergpar

ASKER

Hmm Sorry But this is a Adobe Flash problem...

Kiran Paul VJ

try this

on you textarea properties panel, select parameters, select html as true

now try something like this

text1.text = "This is red text This is blue text";

where text1 is the instanse name of your textarea,. I have check it in Flash 8, dont know the case of CS3

kiranvj

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stalbergpar

ASKER

Yep the last one did not work but I found the problem.
need to set the test output to the var to htmlText insted of just .text
Solution here:

var text1 = "text number 1";
var text2 = "text number 2";

var combined = ""+text1 +""+ text2 +"";

t.icon.testText.html = true;
t.icon.testText.htmlText = combined;

Kiran Paul VJ

t.icon.testText.text worked fine for me in Flash 8

but first I checked with htmlText (which i saw in website). but somehow it did not work in Flash 8, I dont have cs3 on my machine, so i could not check. Anyway glad to know its fixed :)

kiranvj