Label Properties

Properties in View Designer

• design

  Display of the UI element.

  This property can be personalized by administrators.

  Value	Visual Display	Description	Can be Set Using Personalization
  standard		Standard display with colon	Yes
  light		Standard display without colon	Yes
  emphasized		Highlighted display (without colon)	Yes

• labelFor

  ID of the interface element to be labeled, for example, an InputField.

  Caution

  This input is mandatory. If you enter it incorrectly, a runtime error occurs.

  You can use a Label for the following UI elements:

  • BreadCrumb

  • Caption

  • CheckBox and CheckBoxGroup

  • DropDownByKey and DropDownByIndex

  • FileDownload and FileUpload

  • FormattedTextEdit and FormattedTextView

  • Image

  • InputField

  • ItemListBox

  • LinkToAction and LinkToUrl

  • ProgressIndicator

  • RadioButton, RadioButtonGroupByIndex, and RadioButtonGroupByKey

  • Table

  • TextEdit and TextView

  • ThresholdSlider

  • TransparentContainer

  • TriStateCheckBox

• text

  Label text

  Note

  If the value property of the used UI element is linked through a context binding to the ABAP Dictionary, and the label property text is not set, the relevant text of the ABAP Dictionary is automatically used.

  This property can be personalized by administrators.

• textDirection

  Text or writing direction.

  This enables labels of interface elements to be read in languages that have an RTL writing direction, such as Arabic or Hebrew, as opposed to LTR for languages like English.

  This property can be personalized by administrators.

  Value	Description	Can be Set Using Personalization
  INHERIT	The text direction is inherited from the parent element. Therefore, the text direction is identical to that of the parent element.	Yes
  LTR	Left to right text direction	Yes
  RTL	Right to left text direction	Yes

• width

  Width of the UI element; see also Methods and Properties.

  This property can be personalized by administrators.

• wrapping

  Indicates whether or not the text is wrapped. If the value is false, the text is not wrapped.

  This property can be personalized by administrators.

• editable

  If this property is set, you can double-click (slowly) on the label and then edit the label text.

  After you have changed the text and provided there is a binding to an event handler, the OnChange event is triggered.

  Note

  The persistence of the changed text depends on the data binding that was originally selected for the label in question.

  If the label text comes directly from the ABAP Dictionary (from a context binding), the changed text is only available in the OnChange event handler (in parameter newText). But if the text is retrieved using cl_wd_label_->get_text(), the Web Dynpro ABAP runtime returns the text from the ABAP Dictionary that resets the label of the UI element back to this text.