TabStopInfo

app.activeDocument.textFrames[index].paragraphs[index].paragraphAttributes.tabStops

Description

Information about the alignment, position, and other details for a tab stop in a ParagraphAttributes object.

Properties

TabStopInfo.alignment

app.activeDocument.textFrames[index].paragraphs[index].paragraphAttributes.tabStops.alignment

Description

The alignment of the tab stop.

Default: Left

Type

TabStopAlignment

TabStopInfo.decimalCharacter

app.activeDocument.textFrames[index].paragraphs[index].paragraphAttributes.tabStops.decimalCharacter

Description

The character used for decimal tab stops.

Default: .

Type

String

TabStopInfo.leader

app.activeDocument.textFrames[index].paragraphs[index].paragraphAttributes.tabStops.leader

Description

The leader dot character.

Type

String

TabStopInfo.position

app.activeDocument.textFrames[index].paragraphs[index].paragraphAttributes.tabStops.position

Description

The position of the tab stop expressed in points.

Default: 0.0

Type

Number (double)

TabStopInfo.typename

app.activeDocument.textFrames[index].paragraphs[index].paragraphAttributes.tabStops.typename

Description

The class name of the object.

Type

String; read-only.

Example

Displaying tab stop information

// Displays tab stop information found in each text frame
// of current document, if any.

var docRef = app.activeDocument;
var sData = "Tab Stops Found \\rTabStop Leader\t\tTabStop Position\r";
var textRef = docRef.textFrames;

for( var i=0 ; i < textRef.length; i++ ) {
    // Get all paragraphs in the textFrames
    var paraRef = textRef[i].paragraphs;

    for ( p=0 ; p < paraRef.length ; p++ ) {
        // Get para attributes for all textRanges in paragraph
        var attrRef = paraRef[p].paragraphAttributes;
        var tabRef = attrRef.tabStops;

        if ( tabRef.length > 0 ) {
            for(var t=0; t<tabRef.length; t++){
                sData += "\t" + tabRef[t].leader + "\t\t";
                sData += "\t\t" + tabRef[t].position + "\r";
            } // end for
        } // end if
    } // end for
} // end for

var newTF = docRef.textFrames.add();
newTF.contents = sData;
newTF.top = 400;
newTF.left = 100; redraw();