Label

Label

Inherits: Control < CanvasItem < Node < Object

Displays plain text in a line or wrapped inside a rectangle. For formatted text, use RichTextLabel.

Description

Label displays plain text on the screen. It gives you control over the horizontal and vertical alignment, and can wrap the text inside the node’s bounding rectangle. It doesn’t support bold, italics or other formatting. For that, use RichTextLabel instead.

Note: Contrarily to most other Controls, Label’s Control.mouse_filter defaults to Control.MOUSE_FILTER_IGNORE (i.e. it doesn’t react to mouse input events). This implies that a label won’t display any configured Control.hint_tooltip, unless you change its mouse filter.

Tutorials

https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/515

Properties

Align	align	`0`
bool	autowrap	`false`
bool	clip_text	`false`
int	lines_skipped	`0`
int	max_lines_visible	`-1`
MouseFilter	mouse_filter	`2` (parent override)
float	percent_visible	`1.0`
int	size_flags_vertical	`4` (parent override)
String	text	`“”`
bool	uppercase	`false`
VAlign	valign	`0`
int	visible_characters	`-1`

Methods

int	get_line_count ( ) const
int	get_line_height ( ) const
int	get_total_character_count ( ) const
int	get_visible_line_count ( ) const

Theme Properties

Font	font
Color	font_color	Color( 1, 1, 1, 1 )
Color	font_color_shadow	Color( 0, 0, 0, 0 )
Color	font_outline_modulate	Color( 1, 1, 1, 1 )
int	line_spacing	3
StyleBox	normal
int	shadow_as_outline	0
int	shadow_offset_x	1
int	shadow_offset_y	1

Enumerations

enum Align:

ALIGN_LEFT = 0 —- Align rows to the left (default).
ALIGN_CENTER = 1 —- Align rows centered.
ALIGN_RIGHT = 2 —- Align rows to the right.
ALIGN_FILL = 3 —- Expand row whitespaces to fit the width.

enum VAlign:

VALIGN_TOP = 0 —- Align the whole text to the top.
VALIGN_CENTER = 1 —- Align the whole text to the center.
VALIGN_BOTTOM = 2 —- Align the whole text to the bottom.
VALIGN_FILL = 3 —- Align the whole text by spreading the rows.

Property Descriptions

Align align

Default	`0`
Setter	set_align(value)
Getter	get_align()

Controls the text’s horizontal align. Supports left, center, right, and fill, or justify. Set it to one of the Align constants.

bool autowrap

Default	`false`
Setter	set_autowrap(value)
Getter	has_autowrap()

If true, wraps the text inside the node’s bounding rectangle. If you resize the node, it will change its height automatically to show all the text.

bool clip_text

Default	`false`
Setter	set_clip_text(value)
Getter	is_clipping_text()

If true, the Label only shows the text that fits inside its bounding rectangle. It also lets you scale the node down freely.

int lines_skipped

Default	`0`
Setter	set_lines_skipped(value)
Getter	get_lines_skipped()

The node ignores the first lines_skipped lines before it starts to display text.

int max_lines_visible

Default	`-1`
Setter	set_max_lines_visible(value)
Getter	get_max_lines_visible()

Limits the lines of text the node shows on screen.

float percent_visible

Default	`1.0`
Setter	set_percent_visible(value)
Getter	get_percent_visible()

Limits the amount of visible characters. If you set percent_visible to 0.5, only up to half of the text’s characters will display on screen. Useful to animate the text in a dialog box.

String text

Default	`“”`
Setter	set_text(value)
Getter	get_text()

The text to display on screen.

bool uppercase

Default	`false`
Setter	set_uppercase(value)
Getter	is_uppercase()

If true, all the text displays as UPPERCASE.

VAlign valign

Default	`0`
Setter	set_valign(value)
Getter	get_valign()

Controls the text’s vertical align. Supports top, center, bottom, and fill. Set it to one of the VAlign constants.

int visible_characters

Default	`-1`
Setter	set_visible_characters(value)
Getter	get_visible_characters()

Restricts the number of characters to display. Set to -1 to disable.

Method Descriptions

int get_line_count ( ) const

Returns the amount of lines of text the Label has.

int get_line_height ( ) const

Returns the font size in pixels.

int get_total_character_count ( ) const

Returns the total number of printable characters in the text (excluding spaces and newlines).

int get_visible_line_count ( ) const

Returns the number of lines shown. Useful if the Label‘s height cannot currently display all lines.