Hi Ralf, Would you change the visibility of TDiHtmlLabel.FRect to protected from private? I made a derived control based on TDiHtmlLabel added a function to reflect the 'mouse hover' state of the control (by changing the label's entire background color when the user mouse hover the control). In order to do that I had to overridden the Paint method which will need to access the FRect field. Thanks. -- Best Regards, Edwin Yip Mind Mapping is as Effortless as Typing http://www.InnovationGear.com