Is it possible to set the extents in which labels appear in Leaflet?

Question

I'm fairly new to leaflet and web mapping in general. I was curious if there is a way to set labels to only appear at a certain range of extents. The point data layer I have clusters too much preventing any legible labels. It also makes the map look really cluttered.

I have been using the leaflet.label plugin but will use others if needed.

Using Leaflet 0.7

Yes, listen for map 'zoomend' and then assess zoom level with map.getZoom and then add your labels. See how to do that in a similar question here, http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/41928/adding-removing-leaflet-geojson-layers — timlohnes, Aug 26 '15 at 16:36

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 04 '15 at 02:17

I was able to set the extents for labels not through plugins, but through a tweaked version of the suggestion made by Tim. Here is my code:

    var visible;

    map.on('zoomend', function (e) {
        if (map.getZoom() > 13) {
            if (!visible) {
                yourlayer.eachLayer(function (layer) {
                    layer.showLabel();
                });
                visible = true;
            }
        } else {
            if (visible) {
                yourlayer.eachLayer(function (layer) {
                    layer.hideLabel();
                });
                visible = false;
            }
        }
    });

Is it possible to set the extents in which labels appear in Leaflet?

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