# showLabel: false - how to use it?
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/showlabel-false-how-to-use-it/84564
**Category:** Core Development
**Created:** [15 January 2024 14:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/showlabel-false-how-to-use-it/84564 "2024-01-15T14:53:10Z")
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### Author:  [@gregorius](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gregorius)
#### Post date: [15 January 2024 14:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/showlabel-false-how-to-use-it/84564/1 "2024-01-15T14:53:10Z")
Hi There,
I was playing around with the [showlabel: false](https://github.com/node-red/node-red/blob/0e8d3127944a91f39fb49bcb4b388b184ce11edd/packages/node_modules/%40node-red/nodes/core/common/60-link.html#L246) flag and wondering whether it works outside of the link nodes?
At least those nodes to which I added the flag still had a label. I was hoping to have a "mini" node in the editor.
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### Author:  [@GogoVega](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/GogoVega)
#### Post date: [15 January 2024 15:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/showlabel-false-how-to-use-it/84564/2 "2024-01-15T15:25:15Z")
Hi,
I think:
```js
if (n._def.category != "config" || n.type === 'junction') {}
```
But I have very strange behavior - I think there is a bug behind it
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### Author:  [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)
#### Post date: [15 January 2024 16:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/showlabel-false-how-to-use-it/84564/3 "2024-01-15T16:07:24Z")
> [@gregorius](#):
>
> I was hoping to have a "mini" node in the editor.
Do you mean this kind of mini node?
That's using each node's config to set Label: hide, which shows up in flows.json as "l": false.
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### Author:  [@gregorius](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gregorius)
#### Post date: [15 January 2024 16:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/showlabel-false-how-to-use-it/84564/4 "2024-01-15T16:37:07Z")
> [@jbudd](#):
>
> Do you mean this kind of mini node?
[Exactamundo](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exactamundo) 👍
> [@jbudd](#):
>
> up in flows.json as "l": false.
I saw that 'l' in the codebase and was wondering why there's an 'l' and 'showLabel' option ... The question is how can I configure a node to do that automatically, i.e., that becomes the default? Setting it in the editor each time is kinda manual-much-work solution!
Edit: ok hacked it by doing this:
```auto
defaults: {
name: {
value:"",
},
l: { value: false }
},
```
in the nodes definition in the html file ... now when I pull it in, it's mini by default
Edit2: don't use `showLabel: false` - just realised that 'l' being false is plenty.
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### Author:  [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)
#### Post date: [15 January 2024 17:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/showlabel-false-how-to-use-it/84564/5 "2024-01-15T17:00:38Z")
> [@jbudd](#):
>
> which shows up in flows.json as "l": false.
On further investigation it looks like the property "l" can be true, false or undefined (= true). Undefined is presumably for backwards compatibility.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [29 January 2024 17:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/showlabel-false-how-to-use-it/84564/6 "2024-01-29T17:01:29Z")
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