Yepp, thanks .. but that doesn't affect this. It's space inside the TextArea (which is decided by the font in some way).. Bjørn
2008/12/16 Cato Paus <[email protected]> > Have you try this > > paddingTop: 0; > paddingBottom: 0; > paddingRight: 0; > paddingLeft: 0; > > on TextArea? > > > --- In [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, bjorn > <itrashm...@...> wrote: > > > > Any ideas on where I might find more info about this? .. or people > who might > > know more ... > > > > > > 2008/12/2 bjorn <itrashm...@...> > > > > > There is some padding before the first line in a TextArea. Have a > look at > > > this image to see what I mean: > > > > > > http://i34.tinypic.com/4uz8s0.jpg > > > > > > I need to remove this, and the first solution that comes to mind > is to find > > > that value and position the TextArea.y = TextArea.y - [that > value]. The > > > padding before the first line seems to be equal (in most cases) > to the > > > font's descent, which I can get from getTextLineMetrics().descent. > > > > > > However, this is not true in all cases. In some cases, the > padding is more. > > > > > > Anyone have suggestions? > > > > > > Bjørn > > > -- > > > ======================== > > > http://www.juicability.com - flex blog > > > http://www.nospoiler.com - link to youtube videos without the > spoilers > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > ======================== > > http://www.juicability.com - flex blog > > http://www.nospoiler.com - link to youtube videos without the > spoilers > > > > > -- ======================== http://www.juicability.com - flex blog http://www.nospoiler.com - link to youtube videos without the spoilers

