# Formatting TEXTAREA

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-textarea/262443>\
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**Created:** [June 5, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-textarea/262443 "2008-06-05T22:33:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![jacob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f1d935/32.png) [@jacob](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jacob)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/formatting-textarea/262443/1 "2008-06-05T22:33:10Z")

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I’m having trouble getting some TEXTAREA formatting to take.  
The goal is to get the text to align right, but its not working

// format textarea component  
import mx.styles.CSSStyleDeclaration;  
\_global.styles.TextArea = new CSSStyleDeclaration();  
\_global.styles.TextArea.setStyle(“disabledColor”, 0xFFBBBB);  
var caption\_ta:mx.controls.TextArea;  
//  
caption\_ta.html = true;  
caption\_ta.setStyle( “fontFamily”, “Gill Sans” );  
caption\_ta.setStyle( “fontSize”, “14” );  
caption\_ta.setStyle( “embedFonts”, “true” );  
caption\_ta.setStyle( “backgroundColor”, “#999999” );  
caption\_ta.setStyle( “borderStyle”, “none” );  
caption\_ta.setStyle( “textAlign”, “right” );  
caption\_ta.setEnabled(false);  
caption\_ta.vScrollPolicy = “off”;  
//end format textarea component