Ok I have seen various other posts mention this - and have experimented - but still can’t get this to work - forgive me for being thick. I am trying to present two different words, of different length in such a way that the left side of the words being at the same horizontal position - close to box…

[image] Dan_Conway: Option1Text1.anchorHoriz = left Try putting left in quotes so it is interpreted as text, not a variable.

Hi @wakecarter . Ok - so including the quotation marks no longer throws an error, and it does change where the text appears on screen - but I don’t really understand what it’s doing - and it’s certainly not left aligning the text objects. Hmmm… Here’s a photo (again apologies - running Pyschopy on…

I think what I can see is centre alignment with a left anchor. The left hand edge of the text box is at x=0 but it has width 1 so the text centred at x=0.5. You also need to left align the text within the text box.

Ah. Ok. Cool. How do I do this? Thanks, (In the meantime I have written code to detect which word is being used and programatically update the X psoition accordingly).

Try [image] Align Text Code Component not working Builder Try changing the code to: text.alignText='left' where the first “text” is the name of your text component.

Ah terrific. Thanks. Will give that a go. :slight_smile: D.

Left Aligning text - does 'anchorHoriz' work - or how else to do this?

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