# Makie Label
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-label/109721
**Category:** Visualization
**Created:** [February 5, 2024, 3:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-label/109721 "2024-02-05T03:38:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@jar1](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jar1)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 3:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-label/109721/1 "2024-02-05T03:38:29Z")
Is this supposed to work?
```julia
julia> let f = Figure()
ax = Axis(f[1,1])
Label(ax, "hello")
f
end
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching _block(::Type{Label}, ::Axis; text::String)
Closest candidates are:
_block(::Type{<:Makie.Block}, ::Union{Figure, Scene}, ::Any, ::Dict, ::Any; kwdict_complete) got unsupported keyword argument "text"
@ Makie ~/.julia/packages/Makie/z2T2o/src/makielayout/blocks.jl:308
_block(::Type{<:Makie.Block}, ::Union{Figure, Scene}, Any...; bbox, kwargs...)
@ Makie ~/.julia/packages/Makie/z2T2o/src/makielayout/blocks.jl:275
_block(::Type{<:Makie.Block}, ::Union{GridPosition, GridSubposition}, Any...; kwargs...)
@ Makie ~/.julia/packages/Makie/z2T2o/src/makielayout/blocks.jl:263
Stacktrace:
⋮ internal @ Makie
[2] Label(x::Axis, text::String; kwargs::@Kwargs{})
@ Makie ~/.julia/packages/Makie/z2T2o/src/makielayout/blocks/label.jl:1
(@main) pkg> st CairoMakie
Status `~/.julia/environments/main/Project.toml`
[13f3f980] CairoMakie v0.11.8
```
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### Author:  [@abraemer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/abraemer)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 3:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-label/109721/2 "2024-02-05T03:45:51Z")
I don’t think so. The `Label` expects the position in the layout as first parameter. This works:
```julia-repl
julia> let f = Figure()
ax = Axis(f[1,1])
Label(f[1,1], "hello")
f
end
```
See for example the [Layout tutorial - Subplot Labels](https://docs.makie.org/stable/tutorials/layout-tutorial/#subplot_labels).
Edit: To put text on a plot (within an `Axis`) you should use [`text(!)`](https://docs.makie.org/stable/reference/plots/text/)
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### Author:  [@asinghvi17](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/asinghvi17)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2024, 2:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-label/109721/3 "2024-02-07T02:37:15Z")
If you’re looking for a title for an axis, you can set `ax.title`, or provide the `title` keyword
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### Author:  [@jar1](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jar1)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2024, 2:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-label/109721/4 "2024-02-07T02:44:36Z")
Why does `Label` take a position rather than an `Axis`? Would it make sense to allow it to take an axis?
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### Author:  [@abraemer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/abraemer)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2024, 5:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-label/109721/5 "2024-02-07T05:55:12Z")
“Why” is kind of a bad question 🙂 The authors of Makie chose to have a `Block` that just draws a text and call it `Label`. Other `Block`s are for example `Axis` or `Button` or `Textbox`. You see Makie is half of a UI-Toolkit with which you can build quite interactive applications. Here is [a list of all `Block`s](https://docs.makie.org/stable/reference/blocks/).
So you see a `Label` is not really meant for usage on a graph. It is it’s own indepent thing. If you just want to annotate a graph, i.e. but some text somewhere on the plot, then `Label` is not what you want to do. For annotation you should use the function `text!`
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### Author:  [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2024, 7:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-label/109721/6 "2024-02-07T07:23:57Z")
`Label` is really just a wrapper around one `text` plot, with the wiring set up so that it’s dimensions can be communicated to the layout. This has overhead though, so you wouldn’t want every text in your plot to be a `Label`.