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Learning ActionScript 2.0 in Adobe Flash > Working with Text and Strings > Formatting text with Cascading Style Sheet styles > Using style classes

Using style classes

You can create style "classes" (not true ActionScript 2.0 classes) that you can apply to a <p> or <span> tag using either tag's class attribute. When applied to a <p> tag, the style affects the entire paragraph. You can also style a span of text that uses a style class using the <span> tag.

For example, the following style sheet defines two style classes: mainBody and emphasis:

.mainBody {
    font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
    font-size: 24px;
}
.emphasis {
    color: #666666;
    font-style: italic;
}

Within HTML text you assign to a text field, you can apply these styles to <p> and <span> tags, as shown in the following snippet:

<p class='mainBody'>This is <span class='emphasis'>really exciting!</span></p>

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