For some reason, my posts are empty when i use the rich text editor. In any case, if the parent's width is absolute, use maxwidth as such.
<mx:Text maxWidth="parent.width" /> Hyder www.GulfSpecials.com www.AlamgirDesigns.com alamgirdesigns.blogspot.com > --- In [email protected], "mattstorman" <mattstorman@> > wrote: > > > > How can i get a text or label control to wrap text only when it's > > width is greater than it's parents?? > > > > setting percentwidth to 100 sets the text control width to 100% > > regardless of the amount of text. I would like the text control to > > take the width required based on the text set, and if the width > > required > size of parent control, i want it to do wordwrap.. > > > > thx. > > >

