I am not aware of any autosize property for a label.  Why not just make it as a large as the longest caption you would put in there?

Cause I wanna highlight the back colour of the label red if the validation fails. So if it's longer than the caption it looks a bit funny ha = )

It may not look so bad if you center-justify the label.  Another option would be to revise the label width property accordingly when you update the caption.  A third option would be to change the font color instead.

how do i revise the label width property when i update the caption?

as in, how do i know how wide to set the label width? thanks IrogSinta!

Oh my goodness. That's a bit extreme haha, but at least I know now = ) probably one solution is to multiply it by characters keeping a constant font. But that depends on the font as well if the characters are equal width, which usually is not considering "i" and "w"

But thanks so much for your help IrogSinta!! = ))

whao super cool mbizup and DatabaseMX, let me go through this question again (as in your sharings) then close it ya, i think got a bit for me to digest and try out = )

haven't had time to try and implement this yet guys but am saving it in my personal knowledge on EE = )

i think Lebans is one site i need to go through in totality as well.

thanks guys and apologies for the late closure!!

"i think Lebans is one site i need to go through in totality as well."
Definitely!  I have every example from his site ... just in case it goes away. A total gold mine of cool and unusual stuff.

Same for Allen Browne.

And for sure Leigh Purvis's site:

http://databasedevelopment.co.uk/examples.htm
I have every example form here also. Some GREAT concepts demonstrated.

mx

Whao super cool mx! I'm going there now to bookmark it! Thanks!! = ))

sure ...