master/kodi-dev-kit/skin__edit_control.html

<control type="edit" id="1">

      <description>My First edit control</description>

      <posx>80</posx>

      <posy>60</posy>

      <width>250</width>

      <visible>true</visible>

      <aligny>center</aligny>

      <label>Search</label>

      <hinttext>Enter search string</hinttext>

      <font>font14</font>

      <textoffsetx>10</textoffsetx>

      <textcolor>FFB2D4F5</textcolor>

      <disabledcolor>FF000000</disabledcolor>

      <invalidcolor>FFFFFFFF</invalidcolor>

      <texturefocus>button-focus.png</texturefocus>

      <texturenofocus>button-nofocus.png</texturenofocus>

      <pulseonselect>no</pulseonselect>

</control>
Tag	Description
aligny	Can be top or center. Aligns the text within its given control `<height>`. Defaults to top
label	Specifies the header text which should be shown. You should specify an entry from the strings.po here (either the Kodi strings.po or your skin's strings.po file), however you may also hardcode a piece of text also if you wish, though of course it will not be localized. You can use the full label formatting syntax and you may also specify more than one piece of information here by using the $INFO and $LOCALIZE formats.strings.po)
hinttext	Specifies the text which should be displayed in the edit label control, until the user enters some text. It can be used to provide a clue as to what a user should enter in this control.
font	Specifies the font to use from the font.xml file.
textcolor	Specifies the color the text should be, in hex AARRGGBB format, or a name from the colour theme.
textwidth	Will truncate any text that's too long.