Question

I have a textinput component on my stage with an instance name of “myTxt”

I would like to add some left padding to the contents of this textfield. I’ve tried:

myTxt.setStyle("textPadding", 5);

But it adds top (and I assume bottom and right) padding in addition to the left padding. What is the best way to simply add left padding to the textfield’s contents?

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

You use a TextFormat object for this.

var tf:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
tf.leftMargin = 5;
// if you have a bunch of special formatting for your TextField (fonts/sizes/etc ) 
// you will need to set it up here. 
// If you just using the default text etc you don't need to do anything else.


// you can use defaultTextFormat so you don't ever have to worry about it. 
// Just set it up once and it will keep the same formatting.
myTxt.defaultTextFormat = tf; 

Edit: Added links to TextField and TextFormat

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/text/TextField.html

http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/text/TextFormat.html

Update: For a TextInput

import flash.text.TextFormat;
var tf:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
tf.leftMargin = 5;
myTxt.setStyle("textFormat", tf);