Hello Inder, nice to see you here. :-)
padding{Left,Top,Right,Bottom} is - like in CSS - within the
bounds/border of the widget you apply it to.
You can use layout_margin{Left,Top,Right,Bottom} attributes to
accomplish what you intend to do.
Cheers,
Christoph
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Inderjeet Singh <inder...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am probably missing something totally obvious, but can someone tell
> me how to add padding between buttons of a LinearLayout?
>
> Here is the code fragment from my layout xml file.
> <LinearLayout
> xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android";
> android:orientation="horizontal"
> android:gravity="center"
> android:layout_width="fill_parent"
> android:layout_height="wrap_content">
>
> <Button android:id="@+id/first_button"
> style="@style/ButtonText"
> android:layout_width="wrap_content"
> android:layout_height="wrap_content"
> android:paddingLeft="10px"
> android:paddingRight="10px"
> android:text="First"/>
>
> <Button android:id="@+id/second_button"
> style="@style/ButtonText"
> android:layout_width="wrap_content"
> android:layout_height="wrap_content"
> android:paddingLeft="10px"
> android:paddingRight="10px"
> android:text="Second"/>
> </LinearLayout>
>
> The buttons still appear closer together than what I would prefer. How
> do I increase the spacing between the "First" and "Second" buttons?
>
> Thanks
> Inder
>
> >
>
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