Using styles with the Label

You can set style properties to change the appearance of a label instance. All text in a Label component instance must share the same style. The Label component has a textFormat style, which has the same attributes as the TextFormat object and allows you to set the same properties for the content of Label.text as you can for a regular Flash TextField. The following example sets the color of text in a label to red.

Drag the Label component from the Components panel to the Stage and give it an instance name of a_label.
Click the Parameters tab and replace the value of the text property with the text:
Color me red

Select Frame 1 in the main Timeline, open the Actions panel, and enter the following code:

/* Create a new TextFormat object, which allows you to set multiple text properties at a time. */

var tf:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
tf.color = 0xFF0000;
/* Apply this specific text format (red text) to the Label instance. */
a_label.setStyle("textFormat", tf);

Select Control > Test Movie.

Using styles with the Label

To change the color of a label's text: