How to add a border to your Xamarin Form Label?

c# xamarin.forms label border custom-renderer
Diceble picture Diceble · Feb 10, 2017 · Viewed 31.6k times · Source

Hello fellow Xamarin Forms users,

I already found out that borders on a label are not supported out of the box by Xamarin Froms. So after some searching is still have no clue how to make it possible. Is it possible to add a border using the custom renderer? If so does someone have an example? and if not does someone have any other out of the box idea to make this possible.

Thank you in advance

Answer

kb0 picture kb0 · Feb 10, 2017

You can add a Label within Frame element, and setup OutlineColor for Frame:

<Frame OutlineColor="Black">
    <Label Text="My Label With Frame" />
</Frame>

If you want to use custom renderer, you should implement custom renderer for each platform you want to support (i.e. Android, iOS, UWP, WinPhone)

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