# How to change font size in TextArea control?

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**Created:** [January 22, 2009, 8:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-change-font-size-in-textarea-control/280063 "2009-01-22T08:53:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![hagop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/97f17d/32.png) [@hagop](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hagop)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 8:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-change-font-size-in-textarea-control/280063/1 "2009-01-22T08:53:34Z")

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Dear all  
I have a number of textarea controls which display data retireved through XMLConnector / PHP / dataset.

How can I change the font size (or colour) using actionscript 2.0 in a Flash textarea control ?

Thanks  
Hagop