Styleoverriden returns wrong value for AutoLeading override

[Manan Joshi]

Hello All,

I am checking text for style overrides. Now if a piece of text has a character style applied over it and has an override of auto leading. The styleoverridden property returns false. How do we explain this? Is it a bug or am i missing something?

-Manan

[Laubender]

Hi Manan,

just tested this and I see that texts[0].styleOverridden returns true.

Do you have a sample document where you are seeing this?

Regards,
Uwe

[Manan Joshi]

Hi Uwe,

I get it even on a fresh document that i create. I have tested it on CC2017 MAC and CC2018 WIN. See the video cast i attach below

-Manan

[Laubender]

My explanation is:

styleOverridden is showing if the paragraph style is overridden.

In your sample the applied character style is overridden.

FWIW: In my test before the paragraph style was overridden.

Regards,
Uwe

[Manan Joshi]

Seems the DOM documentation lacks to state that this property will work only for ParagraphStyle overrides.

styleOverridden

Boolean

readonly

If true, the applied style has been overridden with additional attributes.

I tested that if i apply a paragraph style on to it that has leading set to something other than auto and hence has override, i do get the result as true when checking styleOveridden.

Is then there no way to identify the override for the case that i specified?

-Manan

[BarlaeDC · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Could you not use textHasOverrides, as this takes a paragraph or character style.

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#Character.html#d1e461137__d1e469100

Boolean textHasOverrides (charOrParaStyle:StyleType, [charStyleAsOverride:Boolean=Boolean])

If true, text has local overrides

Parameter	Type	Description
charOrParaStyle	StyleType StyleType.CHARACTER_STYLE_TYPE StyleType.PARAGRAPH_STYLE_TYPE	Style type to look at.
charStyleAsOverride	Boolean	Whether to consider character styles as overrides or not (Optional) (default: true)

[Laubender]

Hi BarlaeDC ,

thank you very much for this. It seems that method textHasOverrides() was introduced with InDesign version 11.

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign11/#Text.html#d1e409488

Just testing this 🙂

Regards,
Uwe

[Manan Joshi]

Thanks, seems promising, i will test it and update you guys back.

-Manan

[Laubender]

Hm. If we follow the DOM discription in InDesign version 11 textHasOverrides() has only one argument:

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign11/#Text.html#d1e411934__d1e417388

With InDesign version 12, 13 and 14 it has two arguments:

https://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign12/#Text.html#d1e446908__d1e454077

Regards,
Uwe

[Manan Joshi]

Perfect, it works. Thanks BarlaeDC​ for sharing this API and thanks Laubender​ for pointing out that the styleOveridden works with pstyles.

-Manan

[Marc Autret]

@Manan Joshi  @Laubender 

I had to investigate in more depth the Text.styleOverridden and Text.textHasOverrides() features for a personal project. These results could complement and qualify some of the information presented here.

→ “Private Investigation into Style Overrides” (April 2024)

Best,

Marc