Hi, Is this something that might help you? It got into trunk just a few days ago.
#2312: Add label offset to styles http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2312 Regards, Roald Ringdahl Niklas wrote: > Hi list. > > I would like to have more control on the label placement, using features with > labels on a vector layer. > > I have several features added to a vector layer, rendering in SVG. I use the > style attribute "label" to set a label text for the point, and the > "labelAlign" attribute to set the alignment. But I don't feel that the > "labelAlign" property is doing what I want, I would like more control of > where my label ends up. So I looked into the SVG specification and the DOM > elements created by OpenLayers for my features and labels and found the "dx" > and "dy" attributes, which don't seem to be used in OpenLayers renderers. Is > this a design decision or is it just an area which noone have looked into? > > What I would like to do is to be able to set the SVG specific properties, > like "dx" and "dy" on the tspan element, to fine tune the placement of the > labels. Are there any more possibilities to control this than using the > "labelAlign" today? > > If there is some kind of documentation of the label handling out there that I > haven't found, I would be happy to be pointed in the right direction. > > Thanks! > - Niklas > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
