NAME

       label - Create and manipulate label widgets

SYNOPSIS

       label pathName ?options?

STANDARD OPTIONS

       -activebackground     -disabledforeground  -padx
       -activeforeground     -font                -pady
       -anchor               -foreground          -relief
       -background           -highlightbackground -takefocus
       -bitmap               -highlightcolor      -text
       -borderwidth          -highlightthickness  -textvariable
       -compound             -image               -underline
       -cursor               -justify             -wraplength

       See the options manual entry for details on the standard options.

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

       Command-Line Name:-height
       Database Name:  height
       Database Class: Height

              Specifies a desired height for the label.  If an image or bitmap is being displayed
              in the label then the value is in screen units (i.e. any of the forms acceptable to
              Tk_GetPixels);  for  text it is in lines of text.  If this option is not specified,
              the label's desired height is computed from the size of the image or bitmap or text
              being displayed in it.

       Command-Line Name:-state
       Database Name:  state
       Database Class: State

              Specifies  one  of  three  states  for the label:  normal, active, or disabled.  In
              normal state the button is displayed using the foreground and  background  options.
              In   active   state   the   label  is  displayed  using  the  activeForeground  and
              activeBackground  options.   In  the  disabled  state  the  disabledForeground  and
              background options determine how the button is displayed.

       Command-Line Name:-width
       Database Name:  width
       Database Class: Width

              Specifies  a desired width for the label.  If an image or bitmap is being displayed
              in the label then the value is in screen units (i.e. any of the forms acceptable to
              Tk_GetPixels);  for text it is in characters.  If this option is not specified, the
              label's desired width is computed from the size of the  image  or  bitmap  or  text
              being displayed in it.
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DESCRIPTION

       The  label command creates a new window (given by the pathName argument) and makes it into
       a label widget.  Additional options, described above, may be specified on the command line
       or  in  the  option  database  to configure aspects of the label such as its colors, font,
       text, and initial relief.  The label command returns its pathName argument.  At  the  time
       this  command  is  invoked,  there  must not exist a window named pathName, but pathName's
       parent must exist.

       A label is a widget that  displays  a  textual  string,  bitmap  or  image.   If  text  is
       displayed, it must all be in a single font, but it can occupy multiple lines on the screen
       (if it contains newlines or if wrapping occurs because of the wrapLength option)  and  one
       of  the characters may optionally be underlined using the underline option.  The label can
       be manipulated in a few simple ways, such as  changing  its  relief  or  text,  using  the
       commands described below.

WIDGET COMMAND

       The  label  command creates a new Tcl command whose name is pathName.  This command may be
       used to invoke various operations on the widget.  It has the following general form:
              pathName option ?arg arg ...?
       Option and the args determine the exact behavior of the command.  The  following  commands
       are possible for label widgets:

       pathName cget option
              Returns  the current value of the configuration option given by option.  Option may
              have any of the values accepted by the label command.

       pathName configure ?option? ?value option value ...?
              Query or modify  the  configuration  options  of  the  widget.   If  no  option  is
              specified, returns a list describing all of the available options for pathName (see
              Tk_ConfigureInfo for information on  the  format  of  this  list).   If  option  is
              specified  with  no value, then the command returns a list describing the one named
              option (this list will be identical to  the  corresponding  sublist  of  the  value
              returned  if  no  option  is  specified).   If  one  or more option-value pairs are
              specified, then the command modifies the given widget option(s) to have  the  given
              value(s);   in  this case the command returns an empty string.  Option may have any
              of the values accepted by the label command.

BINDINGS

       When a new label is created, it has no default event bindings: labels are not intended  to
       be interactive.

EXAMPLE

              # Make the widgets
              label .t -text "This widget is at the top"    -bg red
              label .b -text "This widget is at the bottom" -bg green
              label .l -text "Left\nHand\nSide"
              label .r -text "Right\nHand\nSide"
              text .mid
              .mid insert end "This layout is like Java's BorderLayout"
              # Lay them out
              pack .t   -side top    -fill x
              pack .b   -side bottom -fill x
              pack .l   -side left   -fill y
              pack .r   -side right  -fill y
              pack .mid -expand 1    -fill both

SEE ALSO

       labelframe(3tk), button(3tk), ttk::label(3tk)

KEYWORDS

       label, widget