InDesign Server2025
API 20.5.0.49
Object

TabStop

A tab stop.

Properties

NameType AccessDescription
TabStopAlignment
read/write The tab stop alignment.
String read/write The tab stop alignment character. Note: Valid when alignment is character align.
EventListeners<EventListener> readonly A collection of event listeners.
Events<Event> readonly A collection of events.
Number readonly The index of the TabStop within its containing object.
Boolean readonly Returns true if the object specifier resolves to valid objects.
String read/write The tab stop leader.
Character | InsertionPoint | Line | Paragraph | ParagraphStyle | Story | Text | TextColumn | TextStyleRange | Word | TextDefault | XmlStory readonly The parent of the TabStop (a TextDefault, Paragraph, ParagraphStyle, Text, InsertionPoint, TextStyleRange, TextColumn, Line, Word, Character, Story or XmlStory).
Number | String unit read/write The position of the tab stop.
Object read/write A property that allows setting of several properties at the same time.

Methods

EventListener

Adds an event listener.

eventType String The event type.
handler File | JavaScriptFunction The event handler. Can accept: File or JavaScript Function.
captures? Boolean This parameter is obsolete.
TabStop[]

Resolves the object specifier, creating an array of object references.

void

Deletes the TabStop.

Boolean

Removes the event listener.

eventType String The registered event type.
handler File | JavaScriptFunction The registered event handler. Can accept: File or JavaScript Function.
captures? Boolean This parameter is obsolete.
String

Generates a string which, if executed, will return the TabStop.

String

Retrieves the object specifier.

Object of 3

Properties elsewhere that hold a TabStop.

Parameter of 3

Method parameters that accept a TabStop.

Return 12

Methods that return a TabStop.