Label with two lines

[sharonc]

Is it possible to create a label on a form with two lines in the label? If so how do you do this?

 

[wekkew]

Dear Sharonc

A label should display multi lines by default, if this isn't the case with yours then I'm guessing that you have set the AutoSize property to TRUE (default is false). If this is the case you must also set the WordWrap property to TRUE (default is false). If you now resize the label - you should have multi-line text.

Another way is to set the caption from code, eg:

Label1.Caption = "first line text" & Chr(13) & "second line"

The above should work with any settings of AutoSize and WordWrap - chr(13) simply means start a new line and you can have as many chr(13) as you want.

Kate

 

[sharonc]

Thank you for the information. It does do multiline, but I wanted it to break at certain places. Ex.
Max Mass

 

[Hackster]

If you want both words on the same line, but spaced so it looks like two lines you can use the space function,i.e.:
Label1.Caption = "Max" & Space(5) & "Mass"

 

[faxof]

To make Enter do a carriage return (break to next line) press Shift+Enter

 

[JohnYingling]

Faxof,
Using Shift+Enter does not work for the Caption property of a label at design-time in VB6. What version of VB are you using.
If I want multi-line captions, I put in a special character like | and then in the form_load
Dim ctl as control
For Each ctl in Controls
if Lcase$(TypeName(ctl)) = "label" then
Ctl.caption = Replace(ctl.Caption,"|",vbCrlf)
End if
Next

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