Comments on: Underlined link style in Flash

By: stu

stu — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:13:42 +0000

wow cant believe I didnt find this before! Thanks

By: Tamara

Tamara — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:52:35 +0000

Thanks!! worked like a charm

By: Dmitry M.

Dmitry M. — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:14:48 +0000

Thank You! Very Helpful (=

By: tufao

tufao — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:20:54 +0000

Here is the solution in AS3:

import flash.text.StyleSheet;
import flash.text.TextField;

function styleHoverUnderline(target_mc:MovieClip)
{
var styleObj:Object = new Object();
styleObj.textDecoration = “underline”;

var my_styleSheet:StyleSheet = new StyleSheet();
my_styleSheet.setStyle(“a:hover”, styleObj);

for (var i:int=0 ; i {
var obj:DisplayObject = target_mc.getChildAt(i);
if (obj is TextField)
TextField(obj).styleSheet = my_styleSheet;
}
}

styleHoverUnderline(text_mc);

By: tufao

tufao — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:04:08 +0000

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By: tufao

tufao — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:02:08 +0000

Hi n1ce,

This solution works fine. Just remember that you need to have an anchor defined on part or in the entire text (static or dynamic).
If you need further help, just email me your fla and I take a look at it.

cheers

By: n1cE

n1cE — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:47:48 +0000

I just tried your example and I didn’t get it to work. I created a TextField and put it into an mc and named it “test_mc”. So i wrote styleHoverUnderline(test_mc);. And nothing happend. I think that your example can’t work because a lot of functions or whatever are not part of Flash. But when you can persuade me that it works I would be very very surprised. So please clear it up to me.

By: tufao

tufao — Sun, 18 May 2008 09:22:49 +0000

Is as simple as that. Just call styleHoverUnderline(movie), where “movie” is the parent containing all text fields.
If you have further questions let me know.

By: Jason Woelfel

Jason Woelfel — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:31:52 +0000

Can you tell me where this code goes? I have tried placing it in various places with no change. I know where ActionScripts go, but don’t know if I need to apply this code to a particular layer, frame, instance, etc.

I have searched all morning for instructions on how to use CSS with Flash. I have not figured out a way to stylize static text that is hyperlinked. Your solution intrigued me, if only I can get it to work without manually drawing lines under the text.

Thank you for any help you can give me.