This property provides a copy of TextLabel.Text that contains exactly what is being rendered by the TextLabel. This is useful for eliminating style tags used for rich text.

Example

When TextLabel.RichText is enabled, the TextLabel.ContentText property shows the text as it appears to the player.

The FontFace property is similar to the Font property, but allows setting fonts that don't exist in the Font enum.

This property is kept in sync with the TextLabel.Font property. When setting FontFace, the Font is set to the corresponding enum value, or to Font.Unknown if there are no matches.

Controls the height of lines, as a multiple of the font's em square size, by scaling the spacing between lines of text in the TextLabel. Valid values range from 1.0 to 3.0, defaulting to 1.0.

This property controls the maximum number of graphemes (or units of text) that are shown on the TextLabel. It is primarily provided as an easy way to create a "typewriter effect" where the characters appear one at a time.

Changing the property does not change the position or size of the visible graphemes - the layout will be calculated as if all graphemes are visible.

Setting the property to -1 disables the limit and shows the entirety of the TextLabel.Text.

This property determines whether the TextLabel renders the TextLabel.Text string using rich text formatting. Rich text uses simple markup tags to style sections of the string in bold, italics, specific colors, and more.

To use rich text, simply include formatting tags in the TextLabel.Text string.

The Text property determines the content rendered by the UI element. The visual properties of the string rendered to the screen is determined by TextLabel.TextColor3, TextLabel.TextTransparency, TextLabel.TextSize, TextLabel.Font, TextLabel.TextScaled, TextLabel.TextWrapped, TextLabel.TextXAlignment and TextLabel.TextYAlignment.

It is possible to render emoji (for example, 😃) and other symbols. These special symbols aren't affected by the TextLabel.TextColor3 property. These can be pasted into Script and LocalScript objects, as well as the field within the Properties window.

This property may contain newline characters, however, it is not possible to type newline characters within the Properties window. Similarly, this property may contain a tab character, but it will render as a space instead.

The read-only property TextBounds reflects the absolute size of rendered text in offsets. In other words, if you were to try to fit text into a rectangle, this property would reflect the minimum dimensions of the rectangle you would need in order to fit the text.

Using TextService:GetTextSize(), you can predict what TextBounds will be on a TextLabel given a string, TextLabel.Font, TextLabel.TextSize and frame size.

This property determines the color of all the text rendered by a GUI element. This property along with TextLabel.Font, TextLabel.TextSize and TextLabel.TextTransparency will determine the visual properties of text. Text is rendered after the text stroke (TextLabel.TextStrokeColor3).

It's important that text is easily read by players! Be sure to choose colors with little-to-no saturation, like white, grey, or black. Make sure the color of your text is contrasted by the TextLabel.BackgroundColor3 of the GUI element. If the element has a transparent background, try applying a black TextLabel.TextStrokeColor3 to help contrast the text with the 3D world behind it.

The TextFits is a read-only property that is false if TextLabel.Text content does not fit within the GuiBase2d.AbsoluteSize when rendered. If TextLabel.TextWrapped is true, a false value indicates that some text is truncated and not rendering. Otherwise, it indicates if the line of text is rendering outside the UI element's rectangle. If TextLabel.TextScaled is enabled, this property will be disabled when text must be scaled down in order to fit.

Rather than using TextScaled, we recommend you consider using AutomaticSize, a new method to dynamically size UI that will give you the best visual result possible.

The TextScaled property determines whether text is scaled so that it fills the entire UI element's space. When this is enabled, TextLabel.TextSize is ignored and TextLabel.TextWrapped is automatically enabled. This property is useful for text-rendering UI elements within BillboardGuis.

When this property is used for screen-space UI, it may be desirable to use a UITextSizeConstraint to restrict the range of possible text sizes.

TextScaled and AutomaticSize

It's recommended that developers avoid usage of TextScaled and adjust UI to take advantage of the AutomaticSize property instead. Here are the core differences between the two properties:

• TextScaled scales the content (text) to accommodate the UI. Without careful consideration, some text may become unreadable if scaled too small.
• AutomaticSize resizes the UI to accommodate content.

With AutomaticSize, you're able to adjust your UI to accommodate the content (text) while maintaining a consistent font size. For more information on how to use automatic sizing, see the UI Automatic Size article.

We suggest that you don't apply both TextScaled and AutomaticSize on the same UI object. If you apply both properties:

• AutomaticSize determines the maximum amount of available space that a GuiObject can use (in this case, text)
• TextScaled uses the available space determined by AutomaticSize, to scale the font size to fit the available space, which will expand up to the maximum font size (100), if there are no size constraints
• The end result will be: text goes to 100 font size and the UI object will expand to fit that text

Using both AutomaticSize and TextScaled at the same time can result in significant scaling differences than when AutomaticSize is off.

The TextSize property determines the height in offsets of one line of rendered text. The unit is in offsets, not points (which is used in most document editing programs). It's worth noting that the "Legacy" font's line height behaves differently, and won't match this property exactly.

This property and TextLabel.TextColor3, TextLabel.TextTransparency, TextLabel.TextStrokeColor3 and TextLabel.TextStrokeTransparency each influence the way text is rendered.

This property supersedes TextLabel.FontSize since it is a number and not an enum. Internally, Roblox uses several sets of pre-rendered character images for each size of each font. It chooses the closest size to TextSize, then scales that set of character images to render text. Before the introduction of this property, you could only pick from the pre-rendered sizes, which were listed by the FontSize enum.

The TextStrokeColor3 property sets the color of the stroke, or outline, of rendered text. This property and TextLabel.TextStrokeTransparency determine the visual properties of the text stroke.

Text stroke is rendered before normal text and is simply 4 renderings of the same text in +/- 1 pixel offsets in each direction. Text stroke rendering works independently and identically to TextLabel.TextColor3 and TextLabel.TextTransparency.

The TextStrokeTransparency property sets the transparency of the stroke, or outline, of rendered text. This property and TextLabel.TextStrokeColor3 determine the visual properties of the text stroke.

Text stroke is rendered before normal text and is simply 4 renderings of the same text in +/- 1 pixel offsets in each direction. Text stroke rendering works independently and identically to TextLabel.TextColor3 and TextLabel.TextTransparency. Since text stroke is simply multiple renderings of the same transparency, this property is essentially multiplicative on itself four times over (e.g. a TextStrokeTransparency of 0.5 appears about the same as TextTransparency of 0.0625, or 0.5^4). Therefore, it's recommended to set TextStrokeTransparency to a value in the range of 0.75 to 1 for more a more subtle effect.

The TextColor3 property determines the transparency of all the text rendered by a UI element. This property along with TextLabel.Font, TextLabel.TextSize and TextLabel.TextColor3 will determine the visual properties of text. Text is rendered after the text stroke (TextLabel.TextStrokeTransparency).

Fading text in using a numeric for-loop is a fantastic way to draw a player's attention to text appearing on screen.

-- Count backwards from 1 to 0, decrementing by 0.1
for i = 1, 0, -0.1 do
   textLabel.TextTransparency = i
   task.wait(0.1)
end

Controls the truncation of the text displayed in this TextLabel.

When enabled, this property will render text on multiple lines within a GUI element's space so that TextLabel.TextBounds will never exceed the GuiBase2d.AbsoluteSize of the UI element.

This is achieved by breaking long lines of text into multiple lines. Line breaks will prefer whitespace; should a long unbroken word exceed the width of the element, that word will be broken into multiple lines.

If further line breaks would cause the vertical height of the text (the Y component of TextLabel.TextBounds) to exceed the vertical height of the element (the Y component of GuiBase2d.AbsoluteSize), then that line will not be rendered at all.

TextXAlignment determines the horizontal alignment (X-axis) of text rendered within a UI element's space. It functions similarly to the CSS text-align property, with left, right and center values (there is no justify option). For Left and Right, text is rendered such that the left/right text bounds just touch the edge of the UI element rectangle. For Center, each line of text is centered on the very center of the UI element rectangle.

This property is used in conjunction with TextLabel.TextYAlignment to fully determine text alignment on both axes. This property won't affect the read-only properties TextLabel.TextBounds and TextLabel.TextFits.

TextYAlignment determines the vertical alignment (Y-axis) of text rendered within a UI element's space. For Top and Bottom, text is rendered such that the top/bottom text bounds just touch the edge of the UI element rectangle. For Center, text is rendered such that there is an equal space from the top bounds of the text to the top of the element and the bottom bounds of the text to the bottom of the element.

This property is used in conjunction with TextLabel.TextXAlignment to fully determine text alignment on both axes. This property won't affect the read-only properties TextLabel.TextBounds and TextLabel.TextFits.