ActionScript 3.0 :: Modifying TextField Margin (Ascend/Descend/etc)?
Jan 28, 2009
My first post, yay! Ok, here's what's been bugging me for a long time. When dealing with TextFields, Flash always adds some sort of margin/padding around the outside of your TextField, so that if you set the X and Y of your TextField to 0, then your text would still sit about +4 pixels in.
If you create a TextField and set 'border=true', you will see what i mean - the border is drawn right on the edge of the TextField, but the actual text itself sits within a padding of about 4 pixels.
Is there any way at all to get the text of a TextField to sit hard-up against the border?
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