# Labels like in Apple Mail

**URL:** <https://forum.xojo.com/t/labels-like-in-apple-mail/36804>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [March 23, 2017, 9:33am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/labels-like-in-apple-mail/36804 "2017-03-23T09:33:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Dan\_Berghult](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Dan\_Berghult](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Dan_Berghult)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 9:33am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/labels-like-in-apple-mail/36804/1 "2017-03-23T09:33:21Z")

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Is it possible to have something similar to how email adresses are representated in Apple Mail in Xojo?

I’m talking about the blue-ish John Appleseed-“label” in this screen shot:

(I don’t know what this GUI-object is called… sorry)

![](https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare/images/en_US/osx/yos_mail_compose.png)

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**Author:** ![Martin\_T](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Martin\_T](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Martin_T)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 9:45am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/labels-like-in-apple-mail/36804/2 "2017-03-23T09:45:36Z")

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Hi Dan, it’s called Tokenfield. You can find a Crossplattform component here [http://oranged.net/xojo/tokenfield/](http://oranged.net/xojo/tokenfield/)  
 ![](http://oranged.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-08-at-5.47.38-AM.png)

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Berghult](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Dan\_Berghult](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Dan_Berghult)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/labels-like-in-apple-mail/36804/4 "2017-03-23T09:56:53Z")

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Hey Martin,

That was fast!

TokenField: Makes sense.

Thanks a lot!

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Berghult](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Dan\_Berghult](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Dan_Berghult)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 10:11am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/labels-like-in-apple-mail/36804/5 "2017-03-23T10:11:21Z")

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For future reference:

[https://forum.xojo.com/26814-keywords-or-tags-in-an-editfield-textarea/0](https://forum.xojo.com/26814-keywords-or-tags-in-an-editfield-textarea/0)

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum.xojo.com/uploads/default/original/1X/455b4dcc0e61630e9f81940004ddffa49c432a46.png) [@system](https://forum.xojo.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/labels-like-in-apple-mail/36804/6 "2020-10-29T18:42:06Z")

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