Power Apps Label Control: Properties and Examples

Labels are the most common control in almost every Power Apps screen I build. Screen titles, field captions, totals, status messages, a clickable “Need help?” link: they’re all labels. They’re simple, but a few details, like line breaks and making a label clickable, trip people up.

In this tutorial, I’ll cover the Label control’s key properties, how to show text from an input or a SharePoint list, how to format currency and dates, how to add line breaks and links, and how the newer modern Text control differs.

Quick answer: Insert a Text label (under Display in the Insert pane) and set its Text property to a string, such as "Los Angeles", or a formula, such as TextInput1.Text. Use Char(10) for a line break, Text(Value, "$#,##0.00") for currency, and Launch("https://...") in OnSelect to make it a link.

What the Label control does

A label shows read-only information: text you type, or the result of a formula, such as a number, date, currency amount or a value from a data source. People can’t edit it, which makes it the right choice for titles, captions and calculated results. In the Insert pane, it’s called Text label:

Key properties

Property	What it does
Text	The text to show, either in quotes or as a formula
Color / Fill	Text color and background color
Font, Size	Font family and font size
FontWeight	Bold, Semibold, Normal or Lighter
Italic, Underline, Strikethrough	Text styling, true or false
Align, VerticalAlign	Horizontal and vertical alignment
Wrap	Wraps long text onto more lines
AutoHeight	Grows the label to fit all the text; if false, the text is cut off
Overflow	Shows a scroll bar when wrapped text doesn’t fit
OnSelect	Actions to run when someone selects the label
Role	Marks the label as a heading (Heading 1 to 4) for screen readers, without changing its look
Live	Whether screen readers announce changes: Off, Polite or Assertive

You’ll see TextWeight in some older tutorials. That property doesn’t exist; it’s FontWeight.

Add a label to a screen

Create an app with Create > Create from blank, and pick Responsive, Tablet size or Phone size. Then select Insert, and choose Text label from Popular or Display. This screenshot shows the older Insert tab; the list of controls is the same:

Set the Text property to what you want to show. Text in quotes appears exactly as typed:

"Los Angeles"

Show what someone types in a text input

Add a Text input control and set the label’s Text to the input’s text:

TextInput1.Text

Press F5 to preview (you don’t need to publish to test). The label updates as you type:

You can combine text and values with &, for example "Hello, " & TextInput1.Text, or "Welcome, " & User().FullName for the signed-in user.

Show a value from a SharePoint list

This Products List has a title, order date, manufacturer and price for each product:

Connect it with Data > Add data > SharePoint, pick the site and the list, and select Connect. In my app, a data table shows all the titles:

To show one value in a label, pick a record and a column. This shows the first product’s title:

First('Products List').Title

In real apps, you’ll usually show the item someone selected, such as Gallery1.Selected.Title, or a specific item, such as LookUp('Products List', Title = "Google Pixel 7").Manufacturer.Value. For more, see how to get the selected value from a gallery.

Format currency, numbers and dates

A label shows numbers and dates in a basic format unless you format them with the Text() function:

To show	Text property	Result
Currency	Text(ThisItem.Price, "$#,##0.00")	$1,225.88
Whole number with commas	Text(12500, "#,##0")	12,500
Percentage	Text(0.256, "0.0%")	25.6%
US date	Text(ThisItem.'Order Date', "mm/dd/yyyy")	01/19/2026
Long date	Text(Today(), "mmmm d, yyyy")	September 27, 2026

For more number formats, see how to format numbers with commas and decimals in Power Apps.

Add a line break

Long text in one label runs together on one line:

You don’t need HTML for a line break. Use Char(10), and turn on Wrap and AutoHeight:

"Hey, Scott." & Char(10) & "How are you?"

If you also want bold or other formatting, use an HTML text control instead, and set its HtmlText property. The line-break tag is <br>:

"Hey, <b>Scott</b>.<br><br>How are you?"

An HTML text control can’t be reached with the keyboard and ignores OnSelect for links inside the HTML, so use a label for anything people need to click.

Make a label a clickable link

Style the label like a link: set Color to blue and Underline to true:

Then add the link to OnSelect:

Launch("https://www.enjoysharepoint.com/category/power-apps/")

In the browser, Launch opens the page in a new tab:

For keyboard and screen reader users, also set TabIndex to 0 so the label can be reached with Tab, and give HoverColor a different color so people can see it’s clickable. For in-app navigation, use Navigate(Screen2) in OnSelect instead.

The modern Text control

If you turn on modern controls (Settings > Updates > Modern controls and themes), you get the Text control, the modern version of the label. It works the same way, with a few differences:

Classic Label	Modern Text
Color	Color (same)
Size	Size (default 15)
FontWeight	FontWeight, using values like FontWeight.Semibold
DisplayMode	Removed
BorderRadius	RadiusTopLeft, RadiusTopRight, RadiusBottomLeft, RadiusBottomRight
OnSelect	OnSelect, which also runs on Enter or Space

With modern controls on, the classic label moves to the Classic category in the Insert pane. Both are supported, so use whichever fits the rest of your app.

These Power Apps control tutorials go well with labels:

• HTML text control in Power Apps
• How to Get Value from Text input in Power Apps
• Power Apps Format Number With Commas and Decimal Places [6 Best Approaches]
• How To Get Selected Value From Gallery In Power Apps?
• How to Use Navigate Function in Power Apps? [With Useful Examples]
• Gallery Control in Power Apps – How to Use

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