# ComboBox formatting not working for me

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combobox-formatting-not-working-for-me/320210>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 16, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combobox-formatting-not-working-for-me/320210 "2011-03-16T20:18:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alpha\_Remex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Alpha\_Remex](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alpha_Remex)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/combobox-formatting-not-working-for-me/320210/1 "2011-03-16T20:18:06Z")

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Hey folks - I’ve done a lot of searching on this and everyone who changes font size/ font family in AS3 uses a TextFormat object and the following code:

```auto
myComboBox.textField.setStyle("textFormat", myFormatBlack)

```

That works, but the problem is I am making my text quite large (42 points) and the combobox won’t resize.

Any ideas?