How to get certain applied styles using script?

Question

Hi All,
I need to know how to get certain applied styles using ID Scripting. I don't have much experience in InDesign so need some help.
Here is a screenshot with a sample text with the said styles applied and highlighted.
I need to know what texts in my document have these styles applied like All Caps, Strikethrough, Underline, Subscript and Superscript etc.
Please help.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi Poortip87
The first thing you have to understand is how to refer to "where" you want to apply the style.
If you want the script to apply the style to the selected text then you would use for example app.selection[0].strikeThru = true;
If you for example want to underline the last word of the first paragraph of the first story you would use app.activeDocument.stories[0].paragraphs[0].words[-1].underline = true;
If you just wanted the first letter of that word underlined then you would add .characters[0] after the words[-1]
To for example apply All Caps to all the text in all the stories you would use
app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().texts[0].capitalization = Capitalization.ALL_CAPS;
The easiest way to find how to set properties to a selections is to set them manually and make the selection and then run the script below.
You should be able to find all the properties you want very easily after running the script.
Or you can use Jongwares excellent reference guide. Indesign JavaScript Help
HTH
Trevor
// script to show most of the selection properties by Trevor
// Creative-Scripts.Com (Still not ready!) available (sometimes) for custom scripts $$$
// scripts {at} Creative-Scripts [dot] Com
$.level = 0; // set debug mode to allow try catch (not read only as stated in manual);
if (!app.selection.length) exit();
var c = 0, s = app.selection[0], p,
      a = [], n, er;
for (n in s) {
    try {
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        if (p && p.constructor.name === "Enumerator") p = getEnum(p ,n);
        a[c++] = n + ": " + p;
    } catch (er) {a[c++] = n + ": ???"}
var f = new File (Folder.temp + +(new Date) + ".txt");
f.open('r');
f.encoding = "UTF-8";
f.lineFeed = ($.os[0]=="M") ? "Macintosh" :" Windows";
f.open('w');
f.write("\uFEFF" + a.join("\r"));
f.close();
$.sleep(300);
f.execute(true);
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