A control for displaying text that can contain custom fonts, images, and basic formatting. RichTextLabel manages these as an internal tag stack. It also adapts itself to given width/heights.
Triggered when the document is fully loaded.
Note: This can happen before the text is processed for drawing. Scrolling values may not be valid until the document is drawn for the first time after this signal.
Triggered when the user clicks on content between meta (URL) tags. If the meta is defined in BBCode, e.g. [url={"key": "value"}]Text[/url]
, then the parameter for this signal will always be a String type. If a particular type or an object is desired, the push_meta() method must be used to manually insert the data into the tag stack. Alternatively, you can convert the String input to the desired type based on its contents (such as calling JSON.parse() on it).
For example, the following method can be connected to meta_clicked to open clicked URLs using the user's default web browser:
Triggers when the mouse exits a meta tag.
Triggers when the mouse enters a meta tag.
LIST_NUMBERS = 0
Each list item has a number marker.
LIST_LETTERS = 1
Each list item has a letter marker.
LIST_ROMAN = 2
Each list item has a roman number marker.
LIST_DOTS = 3
Each list item has a filled circle marker.
Copies the selected text.
Selects the whole RichTextLabel text.
Represents the size of the MenuItems enum.
META_UNDERLINE_NEVER = 0
Meta tag does not display an underline, even if meta_underlined is true
.
META_UNDERLINE_ALWAYS = 1
If meta_underlined is true
, meta tag always display an underline.
META_UNDERLINE_ON_HOVER = 2
If meta_underlined is true
, meta tag display an underline when the mouse cursor is over it.
UPDATE_TEXTURE = 1
If this bit is set, update_image() changes image texture.
UPDATE_SIZE = 2
If this bit is set, update_image() changes image size.
UPDATE_COLOR = 4
If this bit is set, update_image() changes image color.
UPDATE_ALIGNMENT = 8
If this bit is set, update_image() changes image inline alignment.
UPDATE_REGION = 16
If this bit is set, update_image() changes image texture region.
UPDATE_PAD = 32
If this bit is set, update_image() changes image padding.
UPDATE_TOOLTIP = 64
If this bit is set, update_image() changes image tooltip.
UPDATE_WIDTH_IN_PERCENT = 128
If this bit is set, update_image() changes image width from/to percents.
If set to something other than TextServer.AUTOWRAP_OFF, the text gets wrapped inside the node's bounding rectangle. To see how each mode behaves, see AutowrapMode.
If true
, the label uses BBCode formatting.
Note: This only affects the contents of text, not the tag stack.
If true
, a right-click displays the context menu.
The currently installed custom effects. This is an array of RichTextEffects.
To add a custom effect, it's more convenient to use install_effect().
If true
, the selected text will be deselected when focus is lost.
If true
, allow drag and drop of selected text.
If true
, the label's minimum size will be automatically updated to fit its content, matching the behavior of Label.
If true
, the label underlines hint tags such as [hint=description]{text}[/hint]
.
Controls the text's horizontal alignment. Supports left, center, right, and fill, or justify. Set it to one of the HorizontalAlignment constants.
Line fill alignment rules. See JustificationFlag for more information.
Language code used for line-breaking and text shaping algorithms, if left empty current locale is used instead.
If true
, the label underlines meta tags such as [url]{text}[/url]
. These tags can call a function when clicked if meta_clicked is connected to a function.
The delay after which the loading progress bar is displayed, in milliseconds. Set to -1
to disable progress bar entirely.
Note: Progress bar is displayed only if threaded is enabled.
If true
, the scrollbar is visible. Setting this to false
does not block scrolling completely. See scroll_to_line().
If true
, the window scrolls down to display new content automatically.
If true
, the label allows text selection.
If true
, shortcut keys for context menu items are enabled, even if the context menu is disabled.
Set BiDi algorithm override for the structured text.
Set additional options for BiDi override.
The number of spaces associated with a single tab length. Does not affect \t
in text tags, only indent tags.
Aligns text to the given tab-stops.
Note: The returned array is copied and any changes to it will not update the original property value. See PackedFloat32Array for more details.
The label's text in BBCode format. Is not representative of manual modifications to the internal tag stack. Erases changes made by other methods when edited.
Note: If bbcode_enabled is true
, it is unadvised to use the +=
operator with text (e.g. text += "some string"
) as it replaces the whole text and can cause slowdowns. It will also erase all BBCode that was added to stack using push_*
methods. Use append_text() for adding text instead, unless you absolutely need to close a tag that was opened in an earlier method call.
Base text writing direction.
If true
, text processing is done in a background thread.
Controls the text's vertical alignment. Supports top, center, bottom, and fill. Set it to one of the VerticalAlignment constants.
The number of characters to display. If set to -1
, all characters are displayed. This can be useful when animating the text appearing in a dialog box.
Note: Setting this property updates visible_ratio accordingly.
Sets the clipping behavior when visible_characters or visible_ratio is set. See VisibleCharactersBehavior for more info.
The fraction of characters to display, relative to the total number of characters (see get_total_character_count()). If set to 1.0
, all characters are displayed. If set to 0.5
, only half of the characters will be displayed. This can be useful when animating the text appearing in a dialog box.
Note: Setting this property updates visible_characters accordingly.
Adds an image's opening and closing tags to the tag stack, optionally providing a width
and height
to resize the image, a color
to tint the image and a region
to only use parts of the image.
If width
or height
is set to 0, the image size will be adjusted in order to keep the original aspect ratio.
If width
and height
are not set, but region
is, the region's rect will be used.
key
is an optional identifier, that can be used to modify the image via update_image().
If pad
is set, and the image is smaller than the size specified by width
and height
, the image padding is added to match the size instead of upscaling.
If size_in_percent
is set, width
and height
values are percentages of the control width instead of pixels.
Adds raw non-BBCode-parsed text to the tag stack.
Parses bbcode
and adds tags to the tag stack as needed.
Note: Using this method, you can't close a tag that was opened in a previous append_text() call. This is done to improve performance, especially when updating large RichTextLabels since rebuilding the whole BBCode every time would be slower. If you absolutely need to close a tag in a future method call, append the text instead of using append_text().
Clears the tag stack, causing the label to display nothing.
Note: This method does not affect text, and its contents will show again if the label is redrawn. However, setting text to an empty String also clears the stack.
Clears the current selection.
Returns the line number of the character position provided. Line and character numbers are both zero-indexed.
Note: If threaded is enabled, this method returns a value for the loaded part of the document. Use is_finished() or finished to determine whether document is fully loaded.
Returns the paragraph number of the character position provided. Paragraph and character numbers are both zero-indexed.
Note: If threaded is enabled, this method returns a value for the loaded part of the document. Use is_finished() or finished to determine whether document is fully loaded.
Returns the height of the content.
Note: If threaded is enabled, this method returns a value for the loaded part of the document. Use is_finished() or finished to determine whether document is fully loaded.
Returns the width of the content.
Note: If threaded is enabled, this method returns a value for the loaded part of the document. Use is_finished() or finished to determine whether document is fully loaded.
Returns the total number of lines in the text. Wrapped text is counted as multiple lines.
Note: If visible_characters_behavior is set to TextServer.VC_CHARS_BEFORE_SHAPING only visible wrapped lines are counted.
Note: If threaded is enabled, this method returns a value for the loaded part of the document. Use is_finished() or finished to determine whether document is fully loaded.
Returns the vertical offset of the line found at the provided index.
Note: If threaded is enabled, this method returns a value for the loaded part of the document. Use is_finished() or finished to determine whether document is fully loaded.
Returns the indexes of the first and last visible characters for the given line
, as a Vector2i.
Note: If visible_characters_behavior is set to TextServer.VC_CHARS_BEFORE_SHAPING only visible wrapped lines are counted.
Note: If threaded is enabled, this method returns a value for the loaded part of the document. Use is_finished() or finished to determine whether document is fully loaded.
Returns the PopupMenu of this RichTextLabel. By default, this menu is displayed when right-clicking on the RichTextLabel.
You can add custom menu items or remove standard ones. Make sure your IDs don't conflict with the standard ones (see MenuItems). For example:
Warning: This is a required internal node, removing and freeing it may cause a crash. If you wish to hide it or any of its children, use their Window.visible property.
Returns the total number of paragraphs (newlines or p
tags in the tag stack's text tags). Considers wrapped text as one paragraph.
Returns the vertical offset of the paragraph found at the provided index.
Note: If threaded is enabled, this method returns a value for the loaded part of the document. Use is_finished() or finished to determine whether document is fully loaded.
Returns the text without BBCode mark-up.
Returns the current selection text. Does not include BBCodes.
Returns the current selection first character index if a selection is active, -1
otherwise. Does not include BBCodes.
Returns the current selection vertical line offset if a selection is active, -1.0
otherwise.
Returns the current selection last character index if a selection is active, -1
otherwise. Does not include BBCodes.
Returns the total number of characters from text tags. Does not include BBCodes.
Returns the vertical scrollbar.
Warning: This is a required internal node, removing and freeing it may cause a crash. If you wish to hide it or any of its children, use their CanvasItem.visible property.
Returns the number of visible lines.
Note: If threaded is enabled, this method returns a value for the loaded part of the document. Use is_finished() or finished to determine whether document is fully loaded.
Returns the number of visible paragraphs. A paragraph is considered visible if at least one of its lines is visible.
Note: If threaded is enabled, this method returns a value for the loaded part of the document. Use is_finished() or finished to determine whether document is fully loaded.
Installs a custom effect. This can also be done in the Inspector through the custom_effects property. effect
should be a valid RichTextEffect.
Example: With the following script extending from RichTextEffect:
The above effect can be installed in RichTextLabel from a script:
Invalidates paragraph
and all subsequent paragraphs cache.
If threaded is enabled, returns true
if the background thread has finished text processing, otherwise always return true
.
Returns whether the menu is visible. Use this instead of get_menu().visible
to improve performance (so the creation of the menu is avoided).
Deprecated: Use is_finished() instead.
If threaded is enabled, returns true
if the background thread has finished text processing, otherwise always return true
.
Executes a given action as defined in the MenuItems enum.
Adds a newline tag to the tag stack.
The assignment version of append_text(). Clears the tag stack and inserts the new content.
Parses BBCode parameter expressions
into a dictionary.
Terminates the current tag. Use after push_*
methods to close BBCodes manually. Does not need to follow add_*
methods.
Terminates all tags opened by push_*
methods.
Terminates tags opened after the last push_context() call (including context marker), or all tags if there's no context marker on the stack.
Adds a [bgcolor]
tag to the tag stack.
Adds a [font]
tag with a bold font to the tag stack. This is the same as adding a [b]
tag if not currently in a [i]
tag.
Adds a [font]
tag with a bold italics font to the tag stack.
Adds a [cell]
tag to the tag stack. Must be inside a [table]
tag. See push_table() for details. Use set_table_column_expand() to set column expansion ratio, set_cell_border_color() to set cell border, set_cell_row_background_color() to set cell background, set_cell_size_override() to override cell size, and set_cell_padding() to set padding.
Adds a [color]
tag to the tag stack.
Adds a context marker to the tag stack. See pop_context().
Adds a custom effect tag to the tag stack. The effect does not need to be in custom_effects. The environment is directly passed to the effect.
Adds a [dropcap]
tag to the tag stack. Drop cap (dropped capital) is a decorative element at the beginning of a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text.
Adds a [fgcolor]
tag to the tag stack.
Adds a [font]
tag to the tag stack. Overrides default fonts for its duration.
Passing 0
to font_size
will use the existing default font size.
Adds a [font_size]
tag to the tag stack. Overrides default font size for its duration.
Adds a [hint]
tag to the tag stack. Same as BBCode [hint=something]{text}[/hint]
.
Adds an [indent]
tag to the tag stack. Multiplies level
by current tab_size to determine new margin length.
Adds a [font]
tag with an italics font to the tag stack. This is the same as adding an [i]
tag if not currently in a [b]
tag.
Adds language code used for text shaping algorithm and Open-Type font features.
Adds [ol]
or [ul]
tag to the tag stack. Multiplies level
by current tab_size to determine new margin length.
Adds a meta tag to the tag stack. Similar to the BBCode [url=something]{text}[/url]
, but supports non-String metadata types.
If meta_underlined is true
, meta tags display an underline. This behavior can be customized with underline_mode
.
Note: Meta tags do nothing by default when clicked. To assign behavior when clicked, connect meta_clicked to a function that is called when the meta tag is clicked.
Adds a [font]
tag with a monospace font to the tag stack.
Adds a [font]
tag with a normal font to the tag stack.
Adds a [outline_color]
tag to the tag stack. Adds text outline for its duration.
Adds a [outline_size]
tag to the tag stack. Overrides default text outline size for its duration.
Adds a [p]
tag to the tag stack.
Adds a [s]
tag to the tag stack.
Adds a [table=columns,inline_align]
tag to the tag stack. Use set_table_column_expand() to set column expansion ratio. Use push_cell() to add cells.
Adds a [u]
tag to the tag stack.
Removes a paragraph of content from the label. Returns true
if the paragraph exists.
The paragraph
argument is the index of the paragraph to remove, it can take values in the interval [0, get_paragraph_count() - 1]
.
If no_invalidate
is set to true
, cache for the subsequent paragraphs is not invalidated. Use it for faster updates if deleted paragraph is fully self-contained (have no unclosed tags), or this call is part of the complex edit operation and invalidate_paragraph() will be called at the end of operation.
Scrolls the window's top line to match line
.
Scrolls the window's top line to match first line of the paragraph
.
Scrolls to the beginning of the current selection.
Select all the text.
If selection_enabled is false
, no selection will occur.
Sets color of a table cell border.
Sets inner padding of a table cell.
Sets color of a table cell. Separate colors for alternating rows can be specified.
Sets minimum and maximum size overrides for a table cell.
Edits the selected column's expansion options. If expand
is true
, the column expands in proportion to its expansion ratio versus the other columns' ratios.
For example, 2 columns with ratios 3 and 4 plus 70 pixels in available width would expand 30 and 40 pixels, respectively.
If expand
is false
, the column will not contribute to the total ratio.
Updates the existing images with the key key
. Only properties specified by mask
bits are updated. See add_image().