Updating a label with text containing square brackets hides those brackets and the word behind it

[michaelochs]

I am trying to present a block of text which is actually Objective-C source code. However if I do that in a Label, the text gets completely scrambled with all the text missing that follows a [.

So for example this text:

- (void)myFunction {
    [[self someView] doSomething:[self someMethod]]
}

Will render as this:

- (void)myFunction {
    [ doSomething:]
}

I would expect this level of interpretation from some rich text view but not from a standard label and I do not see anything in the API to disable this kind of parsing?

Is this a bug or am I holding it wrong? My code for updating is fairly simple:

def compose(self) -> ComposeResult:
    yield Label()

def watch_context(self, context):
    self.query_one(Label).update(context.details)  # context.details returns the above code as a single str

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[TomJGooding]

Try yield Label(markup=False).

Label can also "contain more complex Rich renderables" and inherits from Static per the docs.

[michaelochs]

Try yield Label(markup=False)

Oh amazing, that did the trick. Sorry for the noise, should have spotted that!

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