Why is text not left aligned properly?

[ShotgunJed]

What is causing this? Also when I set a Text's text to "" or '', if I print it, I get ' '. I also checked the code and I'm wondering why this space is added?

 

 

[lloydevans]

http://pixijs.download/dev/docs/core_text_Text.js.html#line648

text = String(text === '' || text === null || text === undefined ? ' ' : text);

[lloydevans]

An empty string evaluates as 'falsy', a string with a single space doesn't. My guess is that's something to do with the reasoning behind it.

You can simply set the text property without using "+=" for the first time.

[ShotgunJed]

Thanks. No wonder i was getting confused printing the Text.text. I fixed it by first building the complete string to some variable, then setting the Text.text to that variable.