Setting the text alignment on a Spark FormItem label in Flex Hero

By Peter deHaan On August 28, 2010 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the text alignment on a Spark FormItem label in Flex Hero by setting the textAlign style on the labelDisplay skin part using Advanced CSS.

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Creating a justified multiline Spark Button control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On March 9, 2010 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a multiline, justified label on Spark Button control in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin and setting the textAlign style and removing the maxDisplayedLines property.

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Changing the text alignment of a Spark Panel title in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On September 22, 2009 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can change the text alignment of a Spark Panel title in Flex 4 by setting the textAlign style on the Panel container’s titleDisplay object.

Full code after the jump.

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Setting text alignment on a Spark TextArea control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 22, 2008 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the text alignment and text direction in a Spark TextArea control in Flex 4 by setting the textAlign and direction styles.

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Aligning the header text in a DataGrid column in Flex (redux)

By Peter deHaan On October 12, 2008 · 2 Comments

In a previous example, “Aligning the header text in a DataGrid column in Flex”, we saw how you could set the text alignment on a Flex DataGrid control’s DataGridColumn by setting the headerStyleName and textAlign styles.

The following example shows a few more methods of aligning data and headers in a DataGrid and individual [...]

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Setting the label placement and text alignment on a ProgressBar control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On October 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can align the label placement and text alignment on a Flex ProgressBar control by setting the labelPlacement property, and the textAlign and labelWidth styles.

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Setting the text alignment on a TabBar control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On October 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the text alignment on a Flex TabBar control by setting the tabStyleName, tabWidth, and textAlign styles.

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Setting the button height on a ButtonBar control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On September 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the button height on a Flex ButtonBar control by setting the buttonHeight style.

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Aligning the header text in a DataGrid column in Flex

By Peter deHaan On September 16, 2008 · 15 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the text alignment on a Flex DataGrid control’s DataGridColumn by setting the headerStyleName and textAlign styles.

Full code after the jump.

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Changing the label text alignment in a FormItem container in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 6, 2008 · 10 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the text alignment on a Flex FormItem container’s label by setting the textAlign and labelStyleName styles.

Full code after the jump.

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Aligning headers in a DateChooser control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 5, 2008 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can align the month name and year in a Flex DateChooser control by setting the textAlign and headerStyleName styles.

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Changing the text alignment of a List control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On June 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can change the text alignment in a Flex List control by setting the textAlign style.

Full code after the jump.

 

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