How to get width from FlxText

[THEkatinamicrowave]

I'm trying to get the width of a piece of text so I can properly fade it from side to side cinematically and I need to get the text width to do that. Unfortunately, I can't find out how to do this. How can I fetch this?

[Geokureli]

https://api.haxeflixel.com/flixel/text/FlxText.html#textField
https://api.haxeflixel.com/flash/text/TextField.html#textWidth
myText.textField.textWidth

[THEkatinamicrowave]

thank you!