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Learning ActionScript 2.0 in Adobe Flash > Working with Text and Strings > Formatting text with Cascading Style Sheet styles > Creating new styles with ActionScript

Creating new styles with ActionScript

You can create new text styles with ActionScript by using the setStyle() method of the TextField.StyleSheet class. This method takes two parameters: the name of the style and an object that defines that style's properties.

For example, the following code creates a style sheet object named styles that defines two styles that are identical to the ones you already imported (see Loading external CSS files):

var styles:TextField.StyleSheet = new TextField.StyleSheet();
styles.setStyle("bodyText", 
    {fontFamily: 'Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif', 
    fontSize: '12px'}
);
styles.setStyle("headline", 
    {fontFamily: 'Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif',
    fontSize: '24px'}
);

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