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.

Note: Unicode characters after 0xffff (such as most emoji) are not supported on Windows. They will display as unknown characters instead. This will be resolved in Godot 4.0.

Tutorials¶

2D Dodge The Creeps Demo

Properties¶

Align	align	`0`
bool	autowrap	`false`
bool	clip_text	`false`
int	lines_skipped	`0`
int	max_lines_visible	`-1`
MouseFilter	mouse_filter	`2` (overrides Control)
float	percent_visible	`1.0`
int	size_flags_vertical	`4` (overrides Control)
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¶

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`
int	shadow_as_outline	`0`
int	shadow_offset_x	`1`
int	shadow_offset_y	`1`
Font	font
StyleBox	normal

Enumerations¶

enum Align:

Align ALIGN_LEFT = 0

Align rows to the left (default).

Align ALIGN_CENTER = 1

Align rows centered.

Align ALIGN_RIGHT = 2

Align rows to the right.

Align ALIGN_FILL = 3

Expand row whitespaces to fit the width.

enum VAlign:

VAlign VALIGN_TOP = 0

Align the whole text to the top.

VAlign VALIGN_CENTER = 1

Align the whole text to the center.

VAlign VALIGN_BOTTOM = 2

Align the whole text to the bottom.

VAlign VALIGN_FILL = 3

Align the whole text by spreading the rows.

Property Descriptions¶

Align align = 0

void set_align ( Align value )
Align 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 = false

void set_autowrap ( bool value )
bool 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 = false

void set_clip_text ( bool value )
bool is_clipping_text ( )

If true, the Label only shows the text that fits inside its bounding rectangle and will clip text horizontally.

int lines_skipped = 0

void set_lines_skipped ( int value )
int get_lines_skipped ( )

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

int max_lines_visible = -1

void set_max_lines_visible ( int value )
int get_max_lines_visible ( )

Limits the lines of text the node shows on screen.

float percent_visible = 1.0

void set_percent_visible ( float value )
float 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 = ""

void set_text ( String value )
String get_text ( )

The text to display on screen.

bool uppercase = false

void set_uppercase ( bool value )
bool is_uppercase ( )

If true, all the text displays as UPPERCASE.

VAlign valign = 0

void set_valign ( VAlign value )
VAlign 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 = -1

void set_visible_characters ( int value )
int 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.

Theme Property Descriptions¶

Color font_color = Color( 1, 1, 1, 1 )

Default text Color of the Label.

Color font_color_shadow = Color( 0, 0, 0, 0 )

Color of the text's shadow effect.

Color font_outline_modulate = Color( 1, 1, 1, 1 )

The tint of Font's outline. See DynamicFont.outline_color.

int line_spacing = 3

Vertical space between lines in multiline Label.

int shadow_as_outline = 0

Boolean value. If set to 1 (true), the shadow will be displayed around the whole text as an outline.

int shadow_offset_x = 1

The horizontal offset of the text's shadow.

int shadow_offset_y = 1

The vertical offset of the text's shadow.

Font font

Font used for the Label's text.

StyleBox normal

Background StyleBox for the Label.