public text : String

Indicates the current text in the text field. Lines are separated by the carriage return character ("\r", ASCII 13). This property contains the normal, unformatted text in the text field, without HTML tags, even if the text field is HTML.

Example

The following example creates an HTML text field called my_txt, and assigns an HTML-formatted string of text to the field. When you trace the htmlText property, the Output panel displays the HTML-formatted stringthe HTML-formatted string writes to the log file. When you trace the value of the text property, the unformatted string with HTML tags appears in the Output panel.When you trace the value of the text property, the unformatted string with HTML tags writes to the log file.

this.createTextField("my_txt", this.getNextHighestDepth(), 10, 10, 400, 22);
my_txt.html = true;
my_txt.htmlText = "<b>Remember to always update the help panel.</b>";

trace("htmlText: "+my_txt.htmlText);
trace("text: "+my_txt.text);

// output:
htmlText: <P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="12" COLOR="#000000">
<B>Remember to always update your help panel.</B></FONT></P>
text: Remember to always update your help panel.

See also

htmlText (TextField.htmlText property)