Add NewLine to label's Text at design time

c# winforms label newline windows-applications
SilverLight picture SilverLight · Nov 8, 2012 · Viewed 85.3k times · Source

How can I add newlines to a Label's Text at design time? There are some posts on Stack Overflow on how to do this in code-behind, but there is no post about that for design time yet, it seems?

Answer

Nikola Davidovic picture Nikola Davidovic · Nov 8, 2012

When you click on the label Text property in the Property window for the label, a drop down will appear in which you can, when you press Enter, go to the new line. I just tried it, and it works in Visual Studio 2010.

Here's a screenshot to clarify:

Editing multiline label

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