I think it makes sense to start the coordinates axis below the titlebar. In ExtJS they have the concept of docked components such as toolbars and titles. So I think you can do (I changed syntax to pseudo-mxml)
<container layout="vbox"> <Button text="10px below titlebar" margin="10 0 0 0"/> <label text="I'm right below button because of vbox layout"/> <label text="this is the titlebar which is placed at the top" docked="top"/> </container> In other words, docked items override the container's layout and change the coordinates axis point of origin. -- View this message in context: http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/FlexJS-Panel-tp60285p60307.html Sent from the Apache Flex Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.