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== Description ==
== Description ==


Sets the text to be displayed in the fontstring. The text will have the color given to it via the fontinstance definition (or a FontString:SetTextColor call). You may however use a form of simpleHTML to color specific parts of a string, as shown in the example below.
Sets the text to be displayed in the fontstring. The text will have the color given to it via the fontinstance definition (or a FontString:SetTextColor call). You may however use [[UI_Escape_Sequences|escape sequences]] to modify the string's appearance.


NOTE: FontString has a limit of ~4000 chars.
NOTE: FontString has a limit of ~4000 chars.

Revision as of 16:47, 5 April 2008

Widget API ← FontString < SetText

Synopsis

 FontString:SetText(string text)

Description

Sets the text to be displayed in the fontstring. The text will have the color given to it via the fontinstance definition (or a FontString:SetTextColor call). You may however use escape sequences to modify the string's appearance.

NOTE: FontString has a limit of ~4000 chars.

Examples

 FontString:SetText('|cff000000This text is black,|r |cffff0000while this text will be red.|r')

will return

 This text is black, while this text will be red.