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# LabelItem

class `pyqtgraph.` `LabelItem`(text=' ', parent=None, angle=0, **args)

  GraphicsWidget displaying text. Used mainly as axis labels, titles, etc.

  Note: To display text inside a scaled view (ViewBox, PlotWidget, etc) use TextItem

  `__init__`(text=' ', parent=None, angle=0, **args)
  `setAttr`(attr, value)

    Set default text properties. See setText() for accepted parameters.

  `setText`(text, **args)

    Set the text and text properties in the label. Accepts optional arguments for auto-generating a CSS style string:

    Style Arguments: |
    color | (str) example: ‘CCFF00’
    size | (str) example: ‘8pt’
    bold | (bool)
    italic | (bool)

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