Dynamically position text/button

Hi, I have a dynamic text “font size” between a “+” text button and a “-” text button. The “font size” text will change between English text “font size” and Spanish text “tamaño del texto”. I have a very hard time dynamically positioning the “+” and the “-” text buttons so that the spacing between the buttons and the text is the same. The following code does not really work. spacing = 5; btFontIncrease._x = dtFontSize._x - btFontIncrease._width - spacing; btFontDecrease._x = dtFontSize._x + dtFontSize._width + spacing; The problem is that there are margins before and after the text even though the margin values default to 0. What else can I do? Any help is much appreciated.