Kodi Documentation 22.0
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Label Control

Used to show some lines of text.

The label control is used for displaying text in Kodi. You can choose the font, size, colour, location and contents of the text to be displayed.


Example

<control type="label" id="1">
<description>My First label</description>
<posx>80</posx>
<posy>60</posy>
<width>250</width>
<visible>true</visible>
<align>center</align>
<aligny>center</aligny>
<scroll>false</scroll>
<label>6</label>
<info>MusicPlayer.Artist</info>
<number></number>
<angle>30</angle>
<haspath>false</haspath>
<font>font14</font>
<textcolor>FFB2D4F5</textcolor>
<shadowcolor>ff000000</shadowcolor>
<wrapmultiline>false</wrapmultiline>
<scrollspeed>50</scrollspeed>
<scrollsuffix> - </scrollsuffix>
</control>
@ center
Definition cc_decoder708.h:78
const char struct KODI_ADDON_IMAGEDECODER_INFO_TAG * info
Definition kodi-dev-kit/include/kodi/c-api/addon-instance/ImageDecoder.h:410
const char const uint8_t size_t unsigned int * width
Definition kodi-dev-kit/include/kodi/c-api/addon-instance/ImageDecoder.h:416
label
Definition modules_cpp_peripheral_lifetime_diagram_1.dox:147

Auto size labels

Wrapping your label in a grouplist with the auto width and appropriate minimum and maximum values. Allows the labels width to dynamically change relative to how long the label text is. This allows a image or other control to be aligned to the right of the actual label text no matter how wide the label is.

<width min="29" max="200">auto</width>
#define min(a, b)
Definition ExifParse.cpp:34
#define max(a, b)
Definition ExifParse.cpp:37

As of XBMC Gotham, simply specifying <width>auto</width> is also supported.


Multi-line labels

If you want your label control to span multiple lines, you can insert a new line character in your label. For example:

<label>This will be on the first line[CR]And this will be on the second line</label>
@ CR
Definition cc_decoder708.h:23

Also, if you want your label control to conform to the <width> parameter, but still want to be able to give it more content than will fit on one line, then setting:

<wrapmultiline>true</wrapmultiline>

Will cause the text to be cut up onto multiple lines.


Available tags

In addition to the Default Control Tags the following tags are available. Note that each tag is lower case only. This is important, as xml tags are case-sensitive.

Tag Description
align Can be left, right, or center. Aligns the text within the given label <width>. Defaults to left
aligny Can be top or center. Aligns the text within its given label <height>. Defaults to top
scroll When true, the text will scroll if longer than the label's <width>. If false, the text will be truncated. Defaults to false.
label Specifies the text which should be drawn. You should specify an entry from the strings.po here (either the Kodi strings.po or your skin's strings.po file), however you may also hardcode a piece of text also if you wish, though of course it will not be localisable. You can use the full label formatting syntax and you may also specify more than one piece of information here by using the $INFO and $LOCALIZE formats.
info Specifies the information that should be presented. Kodi will auto-fill in this info in place of the <label>. See here for more information.
number Specifies a number that should be presented. This is just here to allow a skinner to use a number rather than a text label (as any number given to <label> will be used to lookup in strings.po)
angle The angle the text should be rendered at, in degrees. A value of 0 is horizontal.
haspath Specifies whether or not this label is filled with a path. Long paths are shortened by compressing the file path while keeping the actual filename full length.
font Specifies the font to use from the font.xml file.
textcolor Specifies the color the text should be, in hex AARRGGBB format, or a name from the colour theme.
shadowcolor Specifies the color of the drop shadow on the text, in AARRGGBB format, or a name from the colour theme.
wrapmultiline If true, any text that doesn't fit on one line will be wrapped onto multiple lines.
scrollspeed Scroll speed of text in pixels per second. Defaults to 60.
scrollsuffix Specifies the suffix used in scrolling labels. Defaults to "¦".

See also

Development: