# TextArea selectable/anti-alias

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-selectable-anti-alias/309985
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 29, 2010, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-selectable-anti-alias/309985 "2010-05-29T09:31:57Z")
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### Author: ![MurtenSaerbi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@MurtenSaerbi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MurtenSaerbi)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2010, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-selectable-anti-alias/309985/1 "2010-05-29T09:31:57Z")

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I now officially hate the textArea component but that’s not the point now. A couple of questions:

**1. How to make the textArea text NOT selectable**  
it is NOT a textField so don’t post .selectable = false, that doesn’t work.

\*\*2. How to make it anti-alias decently. Right now it doesn’t look that smooth.

\*\*I use this code:

```auto

var verdanaFont:Font = new Verdana();
            
var textFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
textFormat.font = verdanaFont.fontName;
textFormat.size = 12;
            
text_txt.setStyle("textFormat", textFormat);
text_txt.setStyle("embedFonts", true);
text_txt.condenseWhite = false;

```

Verdana is ofcourse in my library with the linkagename set to Verdana.