Other Label background color, gotcha

[stevetheframe]

I wanted to change the background color of a label using CSSUtils.SetBackgroundColor, and I wondered why it wasn't working.
Turned out that the background color only changes when there is text in the label and only for the extent of the text.
So, if you need to start off with just a colored background you'll need to put some dummy text colored the same as the background.

        lbl4.Text = "MOUNTCOLOURMOUNTCOLOUR"    'background only works for the extent of the text
        lbl4.TextColor = fx.colors.RGB(112,88,46)
        CSSUtils.SetBackgroundColor(lbl4, fx.colors.RGB(112,88,46))

 

[Erel]

Another option is to put the label inside a pane(l).