From 74efdc153e3b2542cb00c096b12bf47e48b5b9a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Rodrigo=20Gir=C3=A3o=20Serr=C3=A3o?=
 <5621605+rodrigogiraoserrao@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:19:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Button can only accept str/Text as label.

Fixes: #1870.
---
 src/textual/widgets/_button.py | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/textual/widgets/_button.py b/src/textual/widgets/_button.py
index 156ba3f1946..f8b22a9694b 100644
--- a/src/textual/widgets/_button.py
+++ b/src/textual/widgets/_button.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 from typing import cast
 
 import rich.repr
-from rich.console import RenderableType
 from rich.text import Text, TextType
 from typing_extensions import Literal
 
@@ -145,7 +144,7 @@ class Button(Static, can_focus=True):
     ACTIVE_EFFECT_DURATION = 0.3
     """When buttons are clicked they get the `-active` class for this duration (in seconds)"""
 
-    label: reactive[RenderableType] = reactive[RenderableType]("")
+    label: reactive[TextType] = reactive[TextType]("")
     """The text label that appears within the button."""
 
     variant = reactive("default")
@@ -209,15 +208,14 @@ def watch_variant(self, old_variant: str, variant: str):
         self.remove_class(f"-{old_variant}")
         self.add_class(f"-{variant}")
 
-    def validate_label(self, label: RenderableType) -> RenderableType:
+    def validate_label(self, label: TextType) -> TextType:
         """Parse markup for self.label"""
         if isinstance(label, str):
             return Text.from_markup(label)
         return label
 
-    def render(self) -> RenderableType:
-        label = self.label.copy()
-        label = Text.assemble(" ", label, " ")
+    def render(self) -> TextType:
+        label = Text.assemble(" ", self.label, " ")
         label.stylize(self.text_style)
         return label