Hey there!
So I’m trying to color a TextLabel with each letter having a different color. The problem is that I need to do it with variables and it just doesn’t work.
word.Text = “<font color = ‘#00be00’.>”…Variable1…“</font.><font color = ‘#ff0000’.>”…Variable2
(I know there are dots that are missplaced and there are 3 dots instead of 2, that’s because the formatting doesn’t let me show the code without it)
Any help would be really appreciated!
You can do this:
local Variable1 = "put something here"
local Variable2 = "put something here"
word.Text = '<font color = "#00be00">' .. text .. '</font><font color = "#ff0000">' .. Variable2
Use single quotes when the string itself contains double quotes.
If you want to avoid dealing with this mess, you could use string.format
local richTextFormat = '<font color="#00be00">%s</font><font color="#ff0000">%s</font>'
word.Text = string.format(richTextFormat, "word 1", "word 2")
Sadly, this only works if the variables I put are strings.
This doesn’t work:
local Variable1 = string.sub(word.Text, 1, count - 1)
local Variable2 = string.sub(word.Text, errorIndex, count)
word.Text = '<font color = "#00be00">' .. Variable1 .. '</font><font color = "#ff0000">' .. Variable2 .. '</font>'
This solution doesn’t work with what I said
The same goes to this solution
No, the text is just not formatted. It shows the format itself as text.
It seems like there is no issue. Did you enable RichText on the label?
Yes, you aren’t using what I sent tho.
Instead of concatenating the variables, I used string.format
local richTextFormat = '<font color="#00be00">%s</font><font color="#ff0000">%s</font>'
word.Text = string.format(richTextFormat, Variable1, Variable2)
With these variables it doesn’t work tho:
local Variable1 = string.sub(word.Text, 1, count - 1)
local Variable2 = string.sub(word.Text, arrorIndex, count)
Could you print that variables?
You might want to use word.Content instead of word.Text, if you want to exclude the xml tags.
edit: 
Actually, yes, I can print them.
This just gives me: “Content is not a valid member of TextLabel”
Print them, so I can check them.
This is what it prints:
- Client
< - Client
I think it prints this because the text is weird because of the formatting.
Okay I got it worked out. Thank you for your help!