italic (TextFormat.italic property)

public italic : Boolean

A Boolean value that indicates whether text in this text format is italicized. The default value is null, which indicates that the property is undefined.

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 6

Example

The following example creates a text field and sets the text style to italic.

this.createTextField("mytext",1,100,100,100,100);
mytext.multiline = true;
mytext.wordWrap = true;
mytext.border = true;

var myformat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myformat.italic = true;

mytext.text = "This is my first text field object text";
mytext.setTextFormat(myformat);

Flash CS3