Label: General Information

A label is a text that precedes a field value. You can specify a field to occupy the width of a label. Any tag can be used as a label, including qp-label.

Learning Objectives

In this chapter, you will learn the following about a label:

• The design guidelines for the label, including the naming conventions and layout recommendations
• The proper configuration of a label for specific cases, such as adding a single label for multiple controls

Applicable Scenarios

You configure a label in the following cases:

• You need to add a label for multiple UI controls located in a single line.
• You need to add explanatory text (at least one sentence) before a UI element such as a table

Label ID

An ID of a label in HTML consists of two parts, the label prefix and the semantic name separated by a hyphen. The semantic name repeats or summarizes the label text. For example, if a label contains a sentence and precedes a table on the Billing tab of a form, it may have the label-Billing ID, as the following code shows.

<qp-label id="label-Billing" caption="..."/>

UI Naming Conventions

For labels that precede one or multiple UI elements, you use the naming conventions for this type of element.

For labels that contain a whole sentence, use general rules of the language.