Apply Character Style to Content Not Word

Question

I am creating a list of all weights and styles of a font family by script.The list looks like this:Arial:  Regular | Italic | Bold | Bold Italic | For every font weight/style there is a character style with the same name.I try to apply this character style to every term in the list, but if I work withmyFrame.parentStory.lines[1].words[i].appliedCharacterStyle=myStyles[i];it is not working, because some styles have two words (like Bold Italic) and I  also want to use the | as seperator...Is there a better solution to achieve this? here is  the for each loop:for ( var i = 0; i < myStyles.length; i++ ) {
     myFrame.insertionPoints[-1].contents=myStyles[i]+" ";
     myFrame.parentStory.words[i].appliedCharacterStyle=myStyles[i];
};

Robert at ID-Tasker · Accepted Answer

You should reverse operations in your loop - first, apply CharStyle to the insertion point - then set contents:

for ( var i = 0; i < myStyles.length; i++ ) {
myFrame.insertionPoints[-1].appliedCharacterStyle=myStyles[i].name;
myFrame.insertionPoints[-1].contents=myStyles[i];

myFrame.insertionPoints[-1].appliedCharacterStyle='[None]';
myFrame.insertionPoints[-1].contents=myStyles[i]+" | ";
};

You might need to make a reference to the '[None]' CharStyle and use this reference instead of just text - I'm not JS guy and I'm responding from my phone.

And you shouldn't be adding contents to the TextFrame - but to the ParentStory - as you can run "out of space".

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