Label layout regression

[jdemeyer]

A Label no longer wraps long text:

With ipywidgets-5.2.2 + widgetsnbextension-1.2.6:

With ipywidgets-6.0.0.beta5 + widgetsnbextension-2.0.0b7:

[jdemeyer]

With #1011, the Label text is truncated (it shows as lorem ips...) instead of word-wrapping or overflowing, which is IMHO worse than either other option.

[jasongrout]

The idea is that label is the thing that plays well with the layout design, and if you want something a lot longer, use the HTML widget. This should be documented in a migration guide.

[jasongrout]

Is the HTML widget sufficient for your use case?

[SylvainCorlay]

With #1011, the Label text is truncated (it shows as lorem ips...) instead of word-wrapping or overflowing, which is IMHO worse than either other option.

This is not what I am seeing. Did you rebuild the js + css ?

[jdemeyer]

Is the HTML widget sufficient for your use case?

Probably yes. I didn't know about the HTML widget.

[jdemeyer]

Did you rebuild the js + css ?

No idea. I just ran the dev-install.sh script.

[SylvainCorlay]

I can't reproduce after #1011

[jdemeyer]

Did you rebuild the js + css ?

How should I do that? Is running npm install sufficient?

[jasongrout]

Sylvain, I still think the label should behave like the inline label on widgets... Min and Max sizes, and truncate if needed.

[SylvainCorlay]

Ok, we can revert that part of the PR then. I don't really have an opinion.

[jasongrout]

@SylvainCorlay - It seemed like lots of people were using the Label widget as an HTML widget. This makes the semantic distinction clearer. @jdemeyer - is there a need for a label widget that doesn't truncate? Can you try the HTML widget and see if that is sufficient for what you are doing?

[jdemeyer]

@jdemeyer - is there a need for a label widget that doesn't truncate? Can you try the HTML widget and see if that is sufficient for what you are doing?

Yes, I'm happy with the HTML widget. Like I said before, I just didn't know that it existed.