How to word-wrap Label text?

Unity Engine
1

Hi,

I cannot seem to figure out how to wrap a label’s text if it exceeds its parent’s content area. What is the recommended way to do so?

Thanks in advance.

2

Use the uss property

{
white-space: normal;
}

Unintuitive I know but that’s what it does!

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3

Have come back to this innumerable times whenever I forget the name of the property. Thanks!

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4

What is the way to do this same thing from a C# script?

5

There are multiple ways of doing it programmatically. You could do something like this when initializing a field, but this would apply the style inline.

Label label = new Label()
{
    style =
    {
        fontSize = 12,
        whiteSpace = WhiteSpace.Normal
    }
};

Alternatively, you could still rely on USS like so:

USS:

.wrap
{
   white-space: normal;
}

C#:

label.AddToClassList(".wrap");
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