text issue

[manny2k]

Hi

Right see if I can explain this without out sounding to complex…………….more a text alignment issue than a tech one but I’ll give you a brief rundown on what I’ve got anyway.

I’ve got an xml product list comprising of product Name, Product description and a product photo; I have the info in that list loading into a few components using the xmlConnector component.
Product name to the List component
Product description to the TextArea component
Product picture to the Loader component.

All loads ok, when a product is selected from the List the other components update and display the correct description and photo to the selected items.

The issue I have is the description text is sitting right at the top of the TextArea box, is their anyway I can set some padding (say 10px), I’m using the

import mx.styles.CSSStyleDeclaration;
_global.styles.TextArea = new CSSStyleDeclaration();
_global.styles.TextArea.setStyle("backgroundColor", none);
_global.styles.TextArea.setStyle("marginLeft", 10);
_global.styles.TextArea.setStyle("marginRight", 10);

to style the components and have managed to set margins both left and right for the textarea.

Any ideas on a workaround to get the text start a little lower from the top of the text area?

manny

[haakoo]

Hi there,

Why not add "topmargin="10" also

Gr,Hans

[manny2k]

Hi Hans

Thanks for you reply, but Ive tried that and a few others but nothing seems to work, there seems to be no parameter in the CSSStyleDeclaration();
to set it.

I might have a play around with the xml file and see if i can work something out there with the way the descrition tag is written (not to hot on xml though)

it's got to be something real simple im missing

Cheers

manny

[DAL]

I'm kind of limited in css/html but I figured it couldn't hurt to throw out an idea.

If margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; isn't working would it be possible to use tables to align things? I've done that before in desperation but perhaps there is a better way I don't know of.