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Hi,
have you done this ?

– create a new field
– enter Birthday as title
– give a description
– Under Type section, select date selector
– save

When you’re on a profile’s edit page, you should see
– title
– date selector (day, mounth, year)
– This field can be seen by:….
– the field description

If you highlight the whole and check his source code, you would see something like:

<fieldset class="datebox">

	<legend>Birthday</legend>

	<div class="input-options datebox-selects">		
		<label for="field_xx_day" class="bp-screen-reader-text">Select day</label>
		<select id="field_xx_day" name="field_xx_day">
			<option value="">----</option>
		<label for="field_xx_month" class="bp-screen-reader-text">Select month</label>
		<select id="field_xx_month" name="field_xx_month">
			<option value="">----</option>
		<label for="field_xx_year" class="bp-screen-reader-text">Select year</label>
		<select id="field_xx_year" name="field_xx_year">
			<option value="">----</option>
	</div>
</fieldset>

If you can read this code but don’t see it’s ouput on your theme, you have to find which CSS rule is handling the labels.

Could be a simple contrast issue or something omitted somewhere.
To get sure of this, try first with one of Twenty’s theme.

And if possible, answer the questions you already received from Paul and give some details about your install: used theme and plugins at least.