You can set the paddingLeft and paddingRight attributes inline to adjust to your liking.
<mx:ComboBox x="443" y="230" paddingLeft="-3" paddingRight="0"> <mx:dataProvider> <mx:Array> <mx:Object label="Item 1"/> <mx:Object label="Item 2"/> <mx:Object label="Item 3"/> <mx:Object label="Item 4"/> <mx:Object label="Item 5"/> <mx:Object label="Item 6"/> </mx:Array> </mx:dataProvider> </mx:ComboBox> Or do it via CSS: ComboBox { paddingLeft:0; paddingRight:0; } Juan scalenine.com --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "alex steel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi to you all, > > I recently started developing in Flex, mostly because of Apollo and AS3 > I am very good at Flash and AS2 > > > anyway my problem is ComboBox padding > text is very wide from sides by default which I really don't need > in Flex Style explorer there is no example how to use padding for > combobox > I see it's there for Text in examples so please if you can give me an > example on padding for ComboBox > I admin I didn't try to use CSS at all I've asked here first >