# Text align

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-align/238590>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [September 12, 2007, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-align/238590 "2007-09-12T21:43:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![greggreg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6a8cbe/32.png) [@greggreg](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/greggreg)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-align/238590/1 "2007-09-12T21:43:41Z")

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anyone know how to align text in an as3 created text field:

var loadingText:TextField = new TextField();  
loadingText.text = ‘Building Interface…’;  
loadingText.textColor = 0xffffff;  
loadingText.selectable = false;  
?? loadingText.textAlign = ‘center’; ??

needless to say that doesn’t work and throws an error, i can’t find for the life of me how to do this if its even possible.

thanks.