A box that shows text and converts HTML tags to formatting.

Description

An HTML text control not only shows plain text and numbers but also converts HTML tags, such as non-breaking spaces.

Key properties

Color – The color of text in a control.

Font – The name of the family of fonts in which text appears.

HTMLText – Text that appears in an HTML text control and that may contain HTML tags.

Additional properties

BorderColor – The color of a control's border.

BorderStyle – Whether a control's border is Solid, Dashed, Dotted, or None.

BorderThickness – The thickness of a control's border.

DisplayMode – Whether the control allows user input (Edit), only displays data (View), or is disabled (Disabled).

DisabledBorderColor – The color of a control's border if the control's DisplayMode property is set to Disabled.

DisabledFill – The background color of a control if its DisplayMode property is set to Disabled.

Fill – The background color of a control.

Height – The distance between a control's top and bottom edges.

HoverBorderColor – The color of a control's border when the user keeps the mouse pointer on that control.

OnSelect – How the app responds when the user taps or clicks a control.

PaddingBottom – The distance between text in a control and the bottom edge of that control.

PaddingLeft – The distance between text in a control and the left edge of that control.

PaddingRight – The distance between text in a control and the right edge of that control.

PaddingTop – The distance between text in a control and the top edge of that control.

Size – The font size of the text that appears on a control.

Tooltip – Explanatory text that appears when the user hovers over a control.

Visible – Whether a control appears or is hidden.

Width – The distance between a control's left and right edges.

X – The distance between the left edge of a control and the left edge of its parent container (screen if no parent container).

Y – The distance between the top edge of a control and the top edge of the parent container (screen if no parent container).

Related functions

Find( FindString, WithinString )

Example

  1. Add a Label control, name it Source, and set its Text property to this string:

<p> We have done an unusually &nbsp; &quot; deep &quot; globalization and localization. <p>

Don't know how to add, name, and configure a control?

  1. Add an HTML text control, and set its HTMLText property to this value:
    Source.Text

    The HTML text control shows the same text as the Label control but converts the tags to the appropriate characters.