Some notable properties of
the Label are listed here:
Use the Alignment property to align text inside
the Label—left-, right-, or center-aligned, or not aligned (None).
The Appearance, BackStyle, and
BorderStyle properties together help determine the general appearance of
the Label. For instance, if you leave Appearance at its default setting of 1-3d,
set BackColor to vbWhite, and set BorderStyle to Fixed Single, you can give the
Label the same look as that of a TextBox. BackStyle is normally Opaque, but if
you set it to Transparent, whatever is on the underlying form will show through
and underlie the text in the Label's Caption
- Use the AutoSize and WordWrap
properties to determine how the Label displays lengthy text in its Caption.
If you set the AutoSize property of the Label to True
(default is False), the Label automatically shrinks or stretches to the exact
size needed to display the text. The WordWrap property determines whether or not
an autosized Label changes size in a horizontal direction (WordWrap = False, its
default value) or in a vertical direction (WordWrap = True). Remember, WordWrap
has an effect only if you first set AutoSize to True.
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The Label's Default
property, Caption, holds the text that is
visible to the user on the Label's surface.
You can change Caption at runtime. As noted
in previous sections, putting an ampersand
character (&) in front of a letter in
the Caption will turn that letter into an
access key for the control (usually a TextBox)
that immediately follows the Label in the
TabIndex order. Since Caption is the Label's
Default property, code such as
lblName = "Name"
would have the effect of setting the Label
control's Caption to "Name.
NOTE: Visually Displaying an Ampersand in a Caption
So what if you want an ampersnd in a Label's caption to really display as an ampersand—and
not to function as an access key? No problem: Just set the Label's UseMnemonic
property to False. This property's default value of True indicates that an ampersand
will define an access key.
You can also use "&&" to
display a single ampersand. Using this second
method, you could leave UseMnemonic with a value
of True and place a single ampersand before another
letter in the Caption to define an access key.
Note that although many controls have a Caption property, only the Label features
the UseMnemonic property.
