diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d2001bf41..47233d1f5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,4 +7,5 @@ appdates.csv
 .vscode
 .idea/
 _config.yml
-
+tests/Layout/bin/tmp.*
+tests/Layout/testresult.bmp
diff --git a/modules/Layout.js b/modules/Layout.js
index caf63f0c4..521b191b6 100644
--- a/modules/Layout.js
+++ b/modules/Layout.js
@@ -237,14 +237,13 @@ Layout.prototype.layout = function (l) {
       l.c.forEach(c => {
         c.w = c._w + ((0|c.fillx)*(l.w-l._w)/(fillx||1));
         c.h = c.filly ? l.h : c._h;
-        c.x = x;
-        c.y = l.y + (1+(0|c.valign))*(l.h-c.h)/2;
-        x += c.w;
         if (c.pad) {
-          x += c.pad*2;
           c.w += c.pad*2;
           c.h += c.pad*2;
         }
+        c.x = x;
+        c.y = l.y + (1+(0|c.valign))*(l.h-c.h)/2;
+        x += c.w;
         if (c.c) this.layout(c);
       });
       break;
@@ -256,14 +255,13 @@ Layout.prototype.layout = function (l) {
       l.c.forEach(c => {
         c.w = c.fillx ? l.w : c._w;
         c.h = c._h + ((0|c.filly)*(l.h-l._h)/(filly||1));
-        c.x = l.x + (1+(0|c.halign))*(l.w-c.w)/2;
-        c.y = y;
-        y += c.h;
         if (c.pad) {
-          y += c.pad*2;
           c.w += c.pad*2;
           c.h += c.pad*2;
         }
+        c.y = y;
+        c.x = l.x + (1+(0|c.halign))*(l.w-c.w)/2;
+        y += c.h;
         if (c.c) this.layout(c);
       });
       break;
@@ -274,6 +272,8 @@ Layout.prototype.debug = function(l,c) {
   if (!l) l = this._l;
   c=c||1;
   g.setColor(c&1,c&2,c&4).drawRect(l.x+c-1, l.y+c-1, l.x+l.w-c, l.y+l.h-c);
+  if (l.pad)
+    g.drawRect(l.x+l.pad-1, l.y+l.pad-1, l.x+l.w-l.pad, l.y+l.h-l.pad);
   c++;
   if (l.c) l.c.forEach(n => this.debug(n,c));
 };
diff --git a/tests/Layout/bin/espruino b/tests/Layout/bin/espruino
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..29d44789b
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/Layout/bin/espruino differ
diff --git a/tests/Layout/bin/runalltests.sh b/tests/Layout/bin/runalltests.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..99a834d90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Layout/bin/runalltests.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+cd `dirname $0`
+cd ../tests
+ls *.js | xargs ../bin/runtest.sh 
diff --git a/tests/Layout/bin/runtest.sh b/tests/Layout/bin/runtest.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..72071a63b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Layout/bin/runtest.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Requires Linux x64 (for ./espruino)
+# Also imagemagick for display
+ 
+cd `dirname $0`
+if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
+    echo "USAGE:"
+    echo "  bin/runtest.sh testxyz.js"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# temporary test files
+TESTJS=tmp.js
+TESTBMP=tmp.bmp
+# actual source files
+SRCDIR=../tests/
+SRCJS=$1
+SRCBMP=`basename $SRCJS .js`.bmp
+echo "TEST $SRCJS ($SRCBMP)"
+
+cat  ../../../modules/Layout.js > $TESTJS
+echo 'g = Graphics.createArrayBuffer(176,176,4);' >> $TESTJS
+cat $SRCDIR/$SRCJS >> $TESTJS  || exit 1
+echo 'layout.render()' >> $TESTJS
+echo 'layout.debug()' >> $TESTJS
+echo 'require("fs").writeFileSync("'$TESTBMP'",g.asBMP())' >> $TESTJS
+
+./espruino $TESTJS || exit 1
+if ! cmp $TESTBMP $SRCDIR/$SRCBMP >/dev/null 2>&1
+then
+  echo Files differ
+  convert "+append" $TESTBMP $SRCDIR/$SRCBMP ../testresult.bmp
+  display ../testresult.bmp
+  exit 1
+else
+  echo Files are the same
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+
diff --git a/tests/Layout/tests/padding_issue819.bmp b/tests/Layout/tests/padding_issue819.bmp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..82bcb9acb
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/Layout/tests/padding_issue819.bmp differ
diff --git a/tests/Layout/tests/padding_issue819.js b/tests/Layout/tests/padding_issue819.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..54641d3f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Layout/tests/padding_issue819.js
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+var layout = new Layout({type:"v", fillx: true, c: [
+  {type: "txt", font: "10%", halign:1, pad: 20, label: "0123456789"},
+]});