Group Header Label Spacing

[born2see]

I want to space the label in a Group Header gadget so I can place the gadgets underneath them, kinda like a column heading. However when I add a bunch of spaces in the header label properties it doesn’t reflect in the label itself.

Any thoughts why this is and how to correct it?

Here’s my gadget: How can I space out the text?

Thanks,

Dave

[Beno]

This will help;

Where did my Text Area extra spaces go?

Related: in OptoScript, if you want to have an invisible space (vs. the “—” you get for an empty string), you can use code like this: sEmptyLooking = chr( 0x7F );

And this;

Wrap text in groov text area / text box

Ok, groov software engineers suggest that “it should work to embed newline characters (ASCII 10, or 0xA) in the string” coming from the controller. (If you can let us know how this works out, we would be grateful - I will have a crack at it when I can, but it could be a while).

The forum search works pretty good :-]

EDIT: I am wrong. See below. (But leaving this here for future learning).

[Jonathan_Fischer]

That probably won’t work for Group Headers.

Extra spaces don’t work because web browsers collapse all whitespace down to a single character. If you’re writing HTML directly, you can add a non-blocking space entity ( ), but that won’t work in groov. To protect from cross-site scripting attacks, we escape any user-entered input, so you can’t add HTML entities.

Your best bet here is probably to layer a few Line Headers on top of your Group Header; just turn off the underline. That’ll let you match spacing with your gadgets easily, and they’ll scale properly as you resize your browser window. Normal spaces wouldn’t do that.