Anyone know if it is possible to code so that a portion of text is bolded, but not the whole line?

Question

Here is what I have:
I have a drop-down list that, when a selection is made, outputs two separate lines of text to two different cells. (By the way, I'm using LiveCycle Designer ES). I want one word in the string of outputted text for one field to be bold, but the rest regular text.
Here is a fake example to give you the idea:
case "1": // Walls in bad repair
    row2.box2 = "Correction: Fix the walls.";
    row1.box3 = "C";
    break;
Basically, I'd like the "Correction: " part to be bolded, but the "Fix the walls." part to be regular text.
It won't be tragic if it can't be done, but I'm trying to have my report form look as much like the old paper version in terms of text formatting.
Any takers?
DE

Answer 1

Hi Dave,
I don't think you can change the style of a textfield for part of the value.If you set the textfield to "Rich Text", then at run time the user can select a portion of text and change it to bold (Control + B0. But this is probably not what you want.
Someone may have that solution for you, in the meantime you could try the following.
For box2 textfield, turn the caption on and left aligned. Delete the default caption in the Object/Field tab and leave it blank.
Then your script would look something like this:
     case "1": // Walls in bad repair
     row2.box2.caption.value.#text = "Correction:";
     row2.box2.rawValue = "Fix the walls.";
     row1.box3.rawValue = "C";
     break;
It means that you would have to size the reserve for the textfield to match the largest string e.g. "Correction:". But you can set the caption of the textfield to Bold, while maintaining the textfield value to normal. In the Font tab, select the "Edit Caption Only" option:
Good luck,
N.