Add padding to the contents of a textfield

I have a textinput component on my stage with开发者_JS百科 an instance name of "myTxt"

I would like to add some left padding to the contents of this textfield. I've tried:

myTxt.setStyle("textPadding", 5);

But it adds top (and I assume bottom and right) padding in addition to the left padding. What is the best way to simply add left padding to the textfield's contents?

Thanks for your help!

You use a TextFormat object for this.

var tf:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
tf.leftMargin = 5;
// if you have a bunch of special formatting for your TextField (fonts/sizes/etc ) 
// you will need to set it up here. 
// If you just using the default text etc you don't need to do anything else.


// you can use defaultTextFormat so you don't ever have to worry about it. 
// Just set it up once and it will keep the same formatting.
myTxt.defaultTextFormat = tf; 

Edit: Added links to TextField and TextFormat

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/text/TextField.html

http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/text/TextFormat.html

Update: For a TextInput

import flash.text.TextFormat;
var tf:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
tf.leftMargin = 5;
myTxt.setStyle("textFormat", tf);

You could just move the TextField instance inside the component.

componentName.textField.x += 5;

I've been troubled with this issue.

When you apply text to the field, it resets the vertical position. To apply vertical positioning do it AFTER you put content into the field