# Numeric Entry Field Covers Up Numbers When Editing

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/numeric-entry-field-covers-up-numbers-when-editing/64176>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [September 16, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/numeric-entry-field-covers-up-numbers-when-editing/64176 "2022-09-16T14:46:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rbachman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/rbachman/32/43718_2.png) [@rbachman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rbachman)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/numeric-entry-field-covers-up-numbers-when-editing/64176/1 "2022-09-16T14:46:46Z")

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The Numeric Entry Field is covering up the numbers when trying to edit the value. This makes it hard to see the number. I don’t think it used to be this way, so I’m wondering if a recent update did something to this field.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/9/5/951189644fb9fbdfa83c7738ee903726a3ab09a5.png)

Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there a way to fix it besides switching to button mode? It works correctly in button mode:

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/c/1c25906169e5d8b3bfd2bd2eb5f1aa2cdb20e710.png)

We are running in Ignition 8.1.18 with Perspective version 2.1.18.

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**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/numeric-entry-field-covers-up-numbers-when-editing/64176/2 "2022-09-16T14:50:35Z")

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You could turn off spinner  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/a/4/a4d75557e5725ea5da8c504834156ab39712baf2.png)

Regardless, that shouldn’t happen in my opinion

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**Author:** ![justinedwards.jle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/justinedwards.jle/32/37854_2.png) [@justinedwards.jle](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/justinedwards.jle)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/numeric-entry-field-covers-up-numbers-when-editing/64176/3 "2022-09-16T15:24:36Z")

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You can add the paddingRight style parameter:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/4/4/447f97ccb7592300c31533b21a424b51a42c0474.png)

A setting of 20 pixels will probably render the result you want (if you want to keep the spinner):  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/e/7/e7d7c3c1d5b790928d2f57989379bd6b8e16e08c.png)

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**Author:** ![rbachman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/rbachman/32/43718_2.png) [@rbachman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rbachman)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/numeric-entry-field-covers-up-numbers-when-editing/64176/4 "2022-09-16T16:12:09Z")

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Well… that was too easy. I don’t know why I didn’t think about adding padding. I would like to leave the spinner on, so padding works great. Thank you!