Label

A Label is a text element that you can use to display text. You can use a Label to display a title or a description for a control.

Create a Label

You can create a Label with UI Builder, UXML, or C#. The following C# example creates a Label with the text “Hello World” and sets the font size, font style, text alignment, and color:

var label = new Label("Hello World");
label.style.fontSize = 14;
label.style.unityFontStyleAndWeight = FontStyle.Bold;
label.style.unityTextAlign = TextAnchor.MiddleCenter;
label.style.color = Color.red;

Example

The following UXML example creates a Label:

<UXML xmlns="UnityEngine.UIElements" xmlns:uie="UnityEditor.UIElements">
    <Label text="UXML Label" name="the-uxml-label" />
</UXML>

The following C# example illustrates some of the customizable functionalities of the Label:

/// <sample>
// Get a reference to the label from UXML and update its text.
var uxmlLabel = container.Q<Label>("the-uxml-label");
uxmlLabel.text += " (Updated in C#)";

// Create a new label and give it a style class.
var csharpLabel = new Label("C# Label");
csharpLabel.AddToClassList("some-styled-label");
container.Add(csharpLabel);
/// </sample>

To try this example live in Unity, go to Window > UI Toolkit > Samples.

C# base class and namespace

C# class: Label
Namespace: UnityEngine.UIElements
Base class: TextElement

Inherited UXML attributes

This element inherits the following attributes from its base class:

Name	Type	Description
`binding-path`	`string`	Path of the target property to be bound.
`display-tooltip-when-elided`	`boolean`	When true, a tooltip displays the full version of elided text, and also if a tooltip had been previously provided, it will be overwritten.
`double-click-selects-word`	`boolean`	Controls whether double-clicking selects the word under the mouse pointer.
`emoji-fallback-support`	`boolean`	Specifies the order in which the system should look for Emoji characters when rendering text. If this setting is enabled, the global Emoji Fallback list will be searched first for characters defined as Emoji in the Unicode 14.0 standard.
`enable-rich-text`	`boolean`	When false, rich text tags will not be parsed.
`focusable`	`boolean`	If false, this prevents the element from being focused. The element can only be focused if its canGrabFocus property is true.
`parse-escape-sequences`	`boolean`	Determines how escape sequences are displayed. When set to `true`, escape sequences (such as `\n`, `\t`) are parsed and transformed into their corresponding characters. For example, ‘\n’ will insert a new line. When set to `false`, escape sequences are displayed as raw text (for example, `\n` is shown as the characters ’' followed by ‘n’).
`selectable`	`boolean`	Returns true if the field is selectable.
`tabindex`	`int`	An integer used to sort focusable elements in the focus ring. Must be greater than or equal to zero. Setting the `tabIndex` value to less than `0` (for example, `−1`) removes the element from the focus ring and tab navigation.
`text`	`string`	The text to be displayed. Changing this value will implicitly invoke the `INotifyValueChanged_1.value` setter, which will raise a `ChangeEvent_1` of type string.
`triple-click-selects-line`	`boolean`	Controls whether triple-clicking selects the entire line under the mouse pointer.

This element also inherits the following attributes from VisualElement:

Name	Type	Description
`content-container`	`string`	Logical container where child elements are added. If a child is added to this element, the child is added to this element’s content container instead. When iterating over the `VisualElement.Children` of an element, the element’s content container hierarchy is used instead of the element itself. This can lead to unexpected results, such as elements being ignored by the navigation events if they are not directly in the content container’s hierarchy. Refer to `IFocusRing` for more information. If the content container is the same as the element itself, child elements are added directly to the element. This is true for most elements but can be overridden by more complex types. The `ScrollView`, for example, has a content container that is different from itself. In that case, child elements added to the scroll view are added to its content container element instead. While the physical parent (`VisualElement.Hierarchy.parent`) of the child elements is the scroll view’s content container element, their logical parent (`VisualElement.parent`) still refers to the scroll view itself. Since some of the scroll view’s focusable children are not part of its logical hierarchy, like its `Scroller` elements, these focusable children are not considered by default when using sequential navigation. Refer to How can I change what element is focused next for an example of a workaround solution if the default navigation rules don’t correspond to your needs.
`data-source`	`Object`	Assigns a data source to this VisualElement which overrides any inherited data source. This data source is inherited by all children.
`data-source-path`	`string`	Path from the data source to the value.
`data-source-type`	`System.Type`	The possible type of data source assignable to this VisualElement. This information is only used by the UI Builder as a hint to provide some completion to the data source path field when the effective data source cannot be specified at design time.
`enabled`	`boolean`	Returns true if the `VisualElement` is enabled locally. This flag isn’t changed if the VisualElement is disabled implicitly by one of its parents. To verify this, use `enabledInHierarchy`.
`language-direction`	`UIElements.LanguageDirection`	Indicates the directionality of the element’s text. The value will propagate to the element’s children. Setting `languageDirection` to `RTL` can only get the basic RTL support like text reversal. To get more comprehensive RTL support, such as line breaking, word wrapping, or text shaping, you must enable Advance Text Generator.
`name`	`string`	The name of this VisualElement. Use this property to write USS selectors that target a specific element. The standard practice is to give an element a unique name.
`picking-mode`	`UIElements.PickingMode`	Determines if this element can be the target of pointer events or picked by `IPanel.Pick` queries. Elements can not be picked if: - They are invisible- Their `style.display` is set to `DisplayStyle.None` Elements with a picking mode of `PickingMode.Ignore` never receive the hover pseudo-state.
`style`	`string`	Sets the style values on a `VisualElement`. The returned style data, computed from USS files or inline styles written to this object in C#, doesn’t represent the fully resolved styles, such as the final height and width of a VisualElement. To access these fully resolved styles, use `resolvedStyle`. For information about how to use this property and all the supported USS properties, refer to the Apply styles in C# scripts and USS properties reference manual pages.
`tooltip`	`string`	Text to display inside an information box after the user hovers the element for a small amount of time. This is only supported in the Editor UI.
`usage-hints`	`UIElements.UsageHints`	A combination of hint values that specify high-level intended usage patterns for the `VisualElement`. This property can only be set when the `VisualElement` is not yet part of a `Panel`. Once part of a `Panel`, this property becomes effectively read-only, and attempts to change it will throw an exception. The specification of proper `UsageHints` drives the system to make better decisions on how to process or accelerate certain operations based on the anticipated usage pattern. Note that those hints do not affect behavioral or visual results, but only affect the overall performance of the panel and the elements within. It’s advised to always consider specifying the proper `UsageHints`, but keep in mind that some `UsageHints` might be internally ignored under certain conditions (e.g. due to hardware limitations on the target platform).
`view-data-key`	`string`	Used for view data persistence, such as tree expanded states, scroll position, or zoom level. This key is used to save and load the view data from the view data store. If you don’t set this key, the persistence is disabled for the associated `VisualElement`. For more information, refer to View data persistence in the Unity Manual.

USS classes

The following table lists all the C# public property names and their related USS selector.

C# property	USS selector	Description
`ussClassName`	`.unity-label`	USS class name of elements of this type.
`ussClassName`	`.unity-text-element`	USS class name of elements of this type.
`selectableUssClassName`	`.unity-text-element__selectable`	USS class name of selectable text elements.
`disabledUssClassName`	`.unity-disabled`	USS class name of local disabled elements.

You can also use the Matching Selectors section in the Inspector or the UI Toolkit Debugger to see which USS selectors affect the components of the VisualElement at every level of its hierarchy.

Additional resources

TextElement

IntegerField

LayerField

Unity Manual