topic Here's how to create multi-line legend labels in Python Questions

Here's how to create multi-line legend labels

NickFillo — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:06:30 GMT

Hello,

Won't take credit for finding this as somebody else gave me the idea, but I haven't seen the solution posted anywhere in the forums and several people have asked.

To create a multi-line legend label, you simply need to add \r\n into the label where you want the second (and third, fourth, etc) line to start. For example:

"This is my\r\nmulti-line label" will display in the legend label as

This is my
multi-line label

I know that you will be able to write multi-line legend descriptions from python script in 10.1, but with this trick, you will be able to write both labels and descriptions on multiple lines.

Hope that helps somebody.

Re: Here's how to create multi-line legend labels

SusanFinger — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 15:28:56 GMT

For me "SITE\r\nBuffer" displays as

"SITE\r\nBuffer"...what am I missing?

I've changed it in the symbology label area, in the label appearing next to symbol, and in the layer name on the general tab?

Thanks, Susan

Re: Here's how to create multi-line legend labels

ChrisPedrezuela — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 18:07:23 GMT

You need to go into python window, access the layer property name and use your inputs like,


for lyr in lyrs:
  if lyr.name == 'SITE Buffer':
    lyr.name = 'SITE\r\nBuffer'

For me "SITE\r\nBuffer" displays as

"SITE\r\nBuffer"...what am I missing?

I've changed it in the symbology label area, in the label appearing next to symbol, and in the layer name on the general tab?

Thanks, Susan