Label (control)

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A label is a user interface control which displays text on a form. It is usually a static control; having no interactivity. A label is generally used to identify a nearby text box or other Widget. Some labels can respond to events such as mouse clicks, allowing the text of the label to be copied, but this not standard user-interface practice. Labels usually cannot be given the focus, although in applications written in Java using the Swing toolkit, labels can be focussed through tabbing^{[citation needed]}. By contrast, in native Microsoft Windows applications, only controls marked as TabStop controls can be focussed by this method.