# TextFormat() issue

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textformat-issue/290737>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 18, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textformat-issue/290737 "2009-06-18T20:52:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![flashdaddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e36b37/32.png) [@flashdaddy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flashdaddy)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textformat-issue/290737/1 "2009-06-18T20:52:37Z")

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Hi All,

Is there something that I’m missing here? I created a new text field (btnTxt) and it’s just one line of text (a nav link) but for some reason, the height of it is tracing back as 100. I don’t think there is a multi/single line property for TextFormat, so is there some kind of way around this?? Hopefully I’m not the only person who’s run into this issue.

```auto

        var format:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
        format.font = "Gill Sans";
        format.color = 0xFFFFFF;
        format.size = 15;

        var btnTxt:TextField = new TextField();
        btnTxt.embedFonts = true;
        btnTxt.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
        btnTxt.defaultTextFormat = format;
        btnTxt.text = txt;
        btnTxt.border = true;
        btnTxt.width = btnTxt.textWidth + 5;
        btnTxt.selectable = false;
        
        trace(btnTxt.height) //returns 100
        
        var btn:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
        btn.mouseChildren = false;
        btn.mouseEnabled = true;
        btn.buttonMode = true;
        btn.useHandCursor = true;
        btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, subnav_clickHandler, false, 0, true);
        btn.name = "sub_link" + *
        btn.data = txt;
        
        btn.addChild(btnTxt);
        btn.x = tx - btn.width;
        
        subContent.addChild(btn);
        tx = btn.x - 10;
        i++;

```