property Items.Padding as String
Specifies the padding (space between the menu border and the item content) to display the items.

TypeDescription
String A string expression that indicates a list of 4 positive numbers separated by comma characters, which indicates the distance in pixels from margin to client, in the following format: left, top, right, bottom.
By default, the Padding property is empty ( 0,0,0,0 ). The Padding property specifies the  padding (space between the menu border and the item content) to display the items. The BackgroundExt property indicates additional colors, text, images that can be displayed on the items's background using the EBN string format. When using EBN appearance, using the PopupAppearance, LocalAppearance or Appearance, the distance between margins/borders and items client area is indicated by the client object of the skin/ebn object. The Padding property specifies the padding for a particular item.

The following screen shot shows the control with no padding:

The following screen shot shows the control with padding 16, 16, 16, 16: