[flexcoders] Padding in status message

[faserone]

Hi,
is there a way to apply a padding-right to the status message in a
Panel container?
I have a custom Panel with an icon at the right corner and I want a
padding to the status message.
I tried using:

<mx:Panel status="Test test test" statusStyleName="statusResult">

.statusResult {
       padding-right:50;
}

but the the status text is always aligned to the right edge
overlapping my icon.

In case it doesn't work how can I emulate &nbsp; in Flex?
Thanks.