Text controls are the most common types of control that you will use within your canvas app. They are designed to display textual information, as well as receive inputs from a user, and provide the mainstay of any app. They are commonly used throughout the web to present and allow interaction with data, so, from a user experience point of view, their behavior is well understood by even the most basic of users.
The first control we will look at is one of the most common controls you will use in an app: a label.
LABEL
A LABEL is a control that is read-only and allows you to output text to the user but not collect input. The label text is a string; therefore, it can contain alphanumeric and special characters and can either be directly assigned a value or can use a formula to generate an output.
Labels are one of the most versatile controls because there are a lot of properties that can be configured to achieve the desired effect. This could be something as simple as putting...