I believe setting a value for leading will do what you're looking for. <mx:Text text="This text is vertically spaced out" leading="30" width="54"/>
I think the term leading comes from the "olden days" of printing presses when lead was used to create space between lines of text. Hope that helps. Juan scalenine.com --- In [email protected], "blc187" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a way to adjust the vertical spacing between lines in a > textfield? > > I am using a multiline UITextField and would like to adjust the gap > between lines, though can only find letterSpacing which adjusts the > spacing between characters... any help? >

