Kivy – Text Markup
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Although Kivy”s Label object has properties such as bold, italics and color, etc., it also provides markup facility to decorate the label text using a syntax similar to HTML tags. For the markup to show effect, you need to set the markup property of the label to True.
l = Label(text=''Hello [b]World[/b]'', markup=True)
Note that the kivy markup can be used only for inline styling. Instead of the tags with angular brackets as in HTML (as <b>Hello</b>), square brackets are used here (example: [b]Hello</b])
The text with this markup syntax is very much similar to the HTML syntax, as the following table shows −
| HTML | Kivy Markup |
|---|---|
| <b>bolded text</b> | [b]bolded text[/b] |
| <i>italicized text</i> | [i]italicized text[/i] |
| <u>underlined text</u> | [u]underlined text[/u] |
The following tags can be used for inline styling of the text property of label widget −
| Sr.No | Text Property & Description |
|---|---|
| 1 |
[b][/b] Activate bold text |
| 2 |
[i][/i] Activate italic text |
| 3 |
[u][/u] Underlined text |
| 4 |
[s][/s] Strikethrough text |
| 5 |
[font=<str>][/font] Change the font (str should be name of TTF file) |
| 6 |
[font_family=<str>][/font_family] Font family to request for drawing. |
| 7 |
[size=<size>][/size] Change the font size. <size> should be an integer. |
| 8 |
[color=#<color>][/color] Change the text color |
| 9 |
[anchor=<str>] Put an anchor in the text. |
| 10 |
[sub][/sub] Display the text at a subscript position relative to the text before it. |
| 11 |
[sup][/sup] Display the text at a superscript position relative to the text before it. |
If you need to escape the markup from the current text, use kivy.utils.escape_markup().
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