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HTML5 Canvas / using html code in dynamic textfield

Spout
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Feb 11, 2019 Feb 11, 2019

Hello, and first sorry for mu english
I am trying o make a animation with dynamic text field, everything work with simple text, but when I want to manipulate a text with html code it doesn't work

My code

info = "<b>Hello</<b>";

myTextField.text = info; ///doesn't format my text

myTextField.htmlTxt = info; ///doesn't format my text

I am making that in a HTML5 Canvas

Thanks for your help !

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JoãoCésar Community Expert
Community Expert , Feb 11, 2019 Feb 11, 2019

Hi.

Animate regular text fields are canvas based. So you cannot style text using HTML tags.

This is a canvas limitation.

And that html option for text field is greyed out because it only works in AS3 documents.

If you want HTML formatting, you can use a Label component (Window > Components).

Then you can change the text like this:

setTimeout(function()
{
    dom_overlay_container.children[0].innerHTML = "<b>Hello</<b>";
}, 0);

Then you wrap this label component inside of a Graphic or Movie Clip symbol for

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Spout
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Feb 14, 2019 Feb 14, 2019
In Response To JoãoCésar

Thanks so much JC, I really appreciate, it works and it will be more easy for me to understand by looking at your code

@Klaus, thanks for your explanation and you time too, I don't have your level in Animate CC, and in html in general, your explaination are rellay helpfull

Regards

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