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Label Reference

Design-Time Properties

Property Description
Name The name of the control.
Control Source Type The type of data source that will provide data for the control: Database Column, Code Expression.
Control Source Specify the source of data for the control e.g. the name of a database column.
Data Type The type of data that will be contained in the control.
Format Depending on the Data Type property, select the format of the data that will be contained in the control.
Default Value Specify a default value to be used for the control if no value is otherwise specified.
Content Specify whether the content of the control is plain text or HTML code.
DBFormat Specify the format in which you want the control value to be entered into the database.

Events

Event Description
Server Side Events
Before Show Occurs before the control is rendered to the page. This event can be used to change the value of the control.

Run-Time Properties (ASP)

Property Description
Visible This property determines whether the component is to be shown or not.
Value Holds the value of the control.

Run-Time Properties (PHP)

Property Description
ComponentType Specifies type of an object, such as "TextBox", "Record", etc.
Parent Specifies parent container of an object, for example a record form for a textbox that is included within that form.
Visible This property determines whether the control will be shown or not.

Run-Time Properties (.NET)

Interface The System.Web.UI.WebControls.Literal is used
Property Description
Visible Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the control will be rendered on the page.
Text Gets or sets the text for the Label. See .NET Framework SDK reference.

Model Layer

Property Description
<control name> Contains the current value of the control.

Methods (PHP)

Method Description
GetValue Retrieves the value of the Label control.
SetValue Sets the value of the Label control.

Run-Time Variables (CF,CFT)

Variable Description
fld<control name> Holds the value of the control.
hide<control name> This variable determines whether the control is to be shown or not.If the variable is set to true, the label will not be displayed.

Methods (Servlets & JSP)

MethodDescription
getPage Get the page that contains this control.
getFormattedValue Get the value formatted according to the control format.
setFormattedValue Use a String to set the control value. The value is taken as is i.e. formatting will not be applied to this value.
getValue Retrieves the value of the control without any formatting applied to it.
setValue This method sets the value of the control.
hasErrors Indicates whether the control has (validation) errors.
addError Add an error description to the errors collection.
getErrorsAsString Return a single String with all the error messages separated by &lt;br&gt; tags.
isVisible Indicates whether this control should be shown or not.
setVisible Specify whether this control or component should be shown or not.
getParent Get the parent component that contains this control.

See also

Label Overview


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