This one baffled me for about an hour until I read the "fine print". You have
to have the border enabled to show ANY background in a text box.

Now, do you want to do it with the interface or with ActionScript?

Where TextField is the name of your textfield:

TextField.background = true;
TextField.backgroundColor = 0xFF7700;

will make it nice and orange :)
regards,
Gedeon


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2004?

If you are using the TextArea component, try this:

yourTextAreaInstName.backgroundColor = "0xffcc33";

works fine for me in MX 2004 Pro (7.0.1).

when i put that i get this:

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 16: Statement must appear
within on/onClipEvent handler
text.backgroundColor = "0xffcc33";

Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1