Everything you put on a label is an element. And an element isn't just a text, or just a barcode: one element can hold a text, a barcode, a picture, a grid, a pattern and a line all at once, one over the other, in the same frame. Move the element and everything in it moves together.

What an element can hold
Text	Words, in any font, fixed or filled in from your data.
Barcode	A barcode in one of 66 symbologies, counting their versions, from Code 128 to QR codes.
Image	A picture, from a file, a web address, the clipboard, a scanner, the cliparts, or your data.
Grid	A table of rows and columns - and a text can fill its cells.
Pattern	A fill of stripes, dots or checks.
Line	A straight line across the element, with or without arrows.

Around all that, every element has its properties: a background, a border, a shape, a shadow, its position and size, a name, and whether it prints.

An element with nothing in it - no text, barcode, picture, grid, pattern or line, and no background or border you can see - shows This element is empty. on screen, and prints nothing.

Where elements live. Most elements are on a label, and they're repeated on every label of their label set. An element can also sit on the page instead, once per page: that's a page element.

In this chapter
Adding elements	From the element library, by dragging a picture or a field onto a label, and more.
The Label element panel	Where you set up an element, one section at a time.
The Page element panel	The same, for an element on the page.
Working with elements	Selecting, moving, resizing and rotating, putting one in front of another, copying and deleting.

Coming from Labeljoy 6? There, text, barcode and graphic elements were separate kinds. Here there's one kind of element, with a section for each of those contents.