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October 24, 2020
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underlining in fillable form text field

  • October 24, 2020
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Good Afternoon, 

 

I am new to Adobe, and have acrobat pro dc right now. I have text field that is in my filliable form, and i want the text to be underlined when someone types in it. Right now, i have been placing lines physcially under the text field box, but i would love to know a way to have the text just automatically be underlined. The only solution i have found was from 2010 in this forum and its suggestions are no longer a part of DC that i can see. Can someone help me out. I attached a picture below of what i mean.Here is my test text field box and when someone clickes in there to type i want it to be underlined. I hope i have explained this well enough so you understand what i mean. Thank you in advance. 

    Correct answer try67

    Set the field as having Rich Text Formatting (under Properties - Options) and then apply the following code as its custom Keystroke script (under Format - Custom):

     

    if (event.richValue) {
var spans = event.richValue;
for (var i in spans) spans[i].underline = true;
event.richValue = spans;
}

     

    It's possible that in some cases the underline will only be added once you exit the field, though.

    1 reply

    try67
    try67Correct answer
    Community Expert
    October 24, 2020

    Set the field as having Rich Text Formatting (under Properties - Options) and then apply the following code as its custom Keystroke script (under Format - Custom):

     

    if (event.richValue) {
var spans = event.richValue;
for (var i in spans) spans[i].underline = true;
event.richValue = spans;
}

     

    It's possible that in some cases the underline will only be added once you exit the field, though.

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      saka5FD5
      Inspiring
      November 3, 2021

      Please how do i get it to underline my text in multi-line text

      Thanks.

      try67
      try67
      Community Expert
      June 9, 2025

      It shouldn't matter if the field as set as Multi-line. As long as it has RTF enabled, my code should work.

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