How to set style of label?

[dbassett74]

In order to keep a strict separation of UI from data, I want to be able to specify the style of a control, such as a Label to make the text bold and a certain font. But, the actual text value will be set from codebehind. I don't want to do something like this: lblVersion.Text = "V1.215. I much prefer to just set the text value here, but in the markup somehow specify the font styling. Any help would be appreciated.

[geoffrey.mcgill]

Hi dbassett74,

The following sample demonstrate three different ways to style a Label using css.

Example

<style type="text/css">
    #Label1 {
        padding: 10px;
    }
    
    .blue {
        border: 2px solid blue;
    }
</style>

<ext:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="V1.215" StyleSpec="background-color: red;" Cls="blue" />

Hope this helps.

[dbassett74]

Thanks! Two more questions:

1) What is the nice looking dark blue color that is used in Coolite like in the Tab and Panel headers? I want to mimic that color in the label.

2) Is there a good CSS reference site that I could use?