How to Display a Chat Box on Stream | Streamlabs Chat Box Overlay

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Use Streamlabs OBS to set up a chat box widget on your stream. Anyone watching footage from your older broadcasts will see the chat, no matter where it’s shared, as part of the overlay. Style the chatbox to match the color scheme and theme of your channel.

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We've updated our tutorial! Check out the link below to watch the latest guide!

[danvelasquez]

Is there a way to prevent user names from being cut off aside from making the font just smaller?

[orangexlightning]

Ever since the latest update I literally cannot even find widgets

[steveforwarduk]

Slabs chat widget works fine for Twitch chat, but for YouTube chat, the emoticons are all white. anyone know a fix or custom CSS code? surely someone must have noticed this?

[juppeek]

@Etherwho - I can't find your comment anymore, so please: where exactly did you set up the message delay in streamlabs? I looked everywhere.

[downhillgroovy]

This part is easy.
 what were looking for is how to show chat over our game

[panther]

i have a stream labs obs with the built in chat box but it never shows when people comment

[kevlar]

how can we see the chat in our screen?

[ItsMmd]

How can we resize it? Loving Streamlabs OBS by the way!

I want to resize it without making it looks stretched, any idea?

[mike]

No matter what changes I make to the chat box it still shows up as just the default generic box. When I click add source for the chat box it doesn't prompt me to the page @ 2:23, it just adds the source to the feed before I can see the preview. I don't know what I could possibly be doing wrong here.

[technoodle]

hello, without using streamlabs obs is there any way to resize the chat box without stretching it or cutting the test off? i wanted the chat to be on the right of the stream, but it either starts putting text in the very middle wiith hows its sized, or looks super stretched when i have it how i want.

[greenmetalbender]

Is there a way to have the chat box visibile in the screen during the gaming session so i can easily read the comments while playing?

[NintenJoeGamer]

I am trying to set up the chat widget for youtube and I can see the little test messages it has but when I go to my livestream dashboard and type something, nothing shows up no matter how long I wait.

[ryz.]

I cant find i think its because you probabaly updated StreamLabs but i cant find widgets if anyone knows what to do and has Discord my name is Shrek#6093

[aven]

Why doesn't it appear in game? It just appears in the live but not for the streamer, and the chat box is to see the comments...

[mkultravamp]

I follow all of these steps, and it doesn't appear on my stream. Plus, when I try to open the properties for the chat box, they never load, can I get some help?

[odycal]

But I want the overlay in game cuz I stream on 1 laptop and 1 mobile so I can use my mobile as stream deck

[Wholy]

I think this is only for twitch, in youtube it doesnt show anything in stream.

[polarab]

When I go full screen my chat just doesn’t shoe up and I have tried a lot of things and game overlay isn’t working with chat

[xJCRx]

What's the point in having a background colour feature if you're going to coerce it into transparency anyway?