diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index c4c1c3b..1690a2d 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: shinyMatrix
 Title: Shiny Matrix Input Field 
-Version: 0.8.0
+Version: 0.8.1
 Date: 2024-04-10
 Author: Andreas Neudecker
 Maintainer: Andreas Neudecker <andreas.neudecker@inwt-statistics.de>
diff --git a/R/matrixInput.R b/R/matrixInput.R
index 6c900c5..9840413 100644
--- a/R/matrixInput.R
+++ b/R/matrixInput.R
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ matrixInput <- function(inputId,
     singleton(tags$head(tags$link(rel = "stylesheet", type = "text/css", href = "shinyMatrix/matrix-input.css"))),
     tags$div(
       class = "form-group shiny-matrix-input-container shiny-input-container-inline shiny-input-container",
-      if (!is.null(label)) tags$label(label, `for` = inputId) else NULL,
+      tags$label(class = c("control-label", if (is.null(label)) "shiny-label-null"), `for` = inputId, label),
       inputField
     )
   )