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GetAsCSS()

Category: Text

Syntax: GetAsCSS ( text )

Parameters: text ”any expression that resolves to a text string

Description: GetAsCSS() returns a representation of the specified text string, marked up with CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) tags. CSS can capture rich text formatting that has been applied to a text string.

Examples:

The field myField contains Go Team and has manually been formatted as follows :

Font = Helvetica, Font Size = 36 points, Font Color = red, Font Style = bold.

GetAsCSS (myField) returns

<SPAN STYLE= "font-size: 36px;color: #AA0000;font-weight: bold; > text-align: left;"Go Team</SPAN>

Comments:

Representing formatted text as CSS means that you can export stylized text and have it rendered properly by CSS-aware applications, such as Web browsers.

GetAsCSS() is also useful within FileMaker itself, because you can determine what special formatting, if any, has been applied to a field.