Apply text format to text yet to be added in a textfield

I have a text field where user can type and few controls to customize the text properties like: font, size, color etc.
If a user has typed say "Hello World", the caretindex is next to d of World. I want that if now the user makes some changes to the cusomization properties like: changes font size, then the text appearing next is of the font size set and not that of d. How can I do that?

assign the defaultTextFormat property for your textfield.

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