Dropdown list with indented text

[Former Community Member]

Hi,

I've noticed that in Designer a Text Field can have an Indent applied in the Paragraph pallette, however for a Dropdown field these settings are greyed out.

This mean that using the native interface, you cannot format text in a Text field the same as a dropdown text list.

I have notice though that by editing the form xml you can change the following properties of the dropdown list:

<para vAlign="middle" />

to

<para vAlign="middle" marginLeft="14.4pt"/>

Which applies the indent.

Is this an acceptable workaround?  What is the reason for preventing the setting of the text indent for dropdown lists?

Thanks

[Former Community Member]

There are many things in the XFA specifications that are not implemented in Designer. There is nothing wrong with what you have done except that you will have to maintain that part of your form via the native XML source. Note that as it was not implemented in Designer they may choose to implement it in a different way in the future which may not be consistent with your approach. I am not saying that it will happen simply that the possibility is there.

Paul