FormItem label - moving with paddingTop

Question

i have been trying to line up a formItem label with my custom
fields and have discovered that with comboBoxes or textInput
fields, you can move the y location of the formItem label to line
up horizontally with the comboBox/textInput textfield with the
'paddingTop' property (of the comboBox/textInput component).
This is great, however moving the formItem label with the
field paddingTop property doesn't work with:
dateFields, as they don't have a paddingTop property,
a custom field that i created based on a HBox,
or TextArea fields
My question - is there an alternative way to move a formItem
label in the y direction?
(the reason i ask is that the label isn't sitting nicely
aligned with my custom fields)

Answer 1

Probably not the response you want, but...
Don't use Form. I never have because it is too inflexible,
and provides too little benefit.
Tracy