public tabStops : Array

Specifies custom tab stops as an array of non-negative integers. Each tab stop is specified in pixels. If custom tab stops are not specified (null), the default tab stop is 4 (average character width).

Note: For Flash Lite, this property works for embedded fonts only. This property is not supported for Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai.

Example

The following example creates two text fields, one with tab stops every 40 pixels, and the other with tab stops every 75 pixels.

this.createTextField("mytext",1,100,100,400,100);
mytext.border = true;
var myformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myformat.tabStops = [40,80,120,160];
mytext.text = "A\tB\tC\tD"; // \t is the tab stop character
mytext.setTextFormat(myformat);

this.createTextField("mytext2",2,100,220,400,100);
mytext2.border = true;
var myformat2:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myformat2.tabStops = [75,150,225,300];
mytext2.text ="A\tB\tC\tD";
mytext2.setTextFormat(myformat2);