Haxe

then text text align isnt working for you (i assumed the red label wouldnt be full width)

I guess, this implies that ceramics text align isn't working or i don't know how it works

presumably the latter? 🙂

If it has text align, i guess it'd work... paging Dr Jeremy 😄

```hx
            if (_textStyle.textAlign != null) {
                surface.align = switch (_textStyle.textAlign) {
                    case 'left': LEFT;
                    case 'center': CENTER;
                    case 'right': RIGHT;
                    default: LEFT;
                }
                measureTextRequired = true;
            }
```

that just mans the label is full width... not the text display itself

can you give the textdisplay a background colour easy enough in ceramic?

long story short, i betcha this isnt implemented in your backend: https://github.com/haxeui/haxeui-openfl/blob/master/haxe/ui/backend/TextDisplayImpl.hx#L149-L162

but mostly because ceramic handles text measurement itself so the width/height props of the surface were implied

yeah, so your ceramic textfield (whatever its called) is just autosized (presumably the default), so center isnt going to do anything

well, for text centering to work (regardless of ceramic) the ceramic textfield has to have a width (bigger than the size of the text - otherwise there is nothing to center)

a ceramic's Text component's width is set to the width of its characters

i can, but it wouldn't mean anything to ceramic itself

because it would just overwrite it when measuretext is called

```
    private override function validateDisplay() {
        if (surface.width != _width) {
                    surface.width = _width;
        }

        if (surface.height != _height) {
                    surface.height = _height;
        }
    }
```