Text

The Text component is used to add text to the report. The text can be formatted with either HTML or Markdown.

Example JSON

Below is an example of the JSON required to define a Text component:

{
    "type": "Text",
    "options": {
        "text": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet",
        "bg_colour": "background-faded",
        "width": "2/3"
    }
}

Options

Key	Description
`text`	The text to add, either as Markdown or HTML
`width`	Optional. The width of the component. Only applies when inside a `Section` or `Row` component whose `columns` option is set to `null`.
`horizontal_margin`	Optional. Margin added horizontally to the element. Defaults to 0.
`vertical_margin`	Optional. Margin added vertically to the element. Defaults to 1.
`align`	Optional. Defaults to `left`. Text alignment, either `left`, `right` or `centre`.
`size`	Optional. Defaults to `sm`. Font sizing options, see below for more details.
`colour`	Optional. Sets the text colour using one of the named colour theme variables. Refer to themes for more details.
`bg_colour`	Optional. Sets the background colour using one of the named color theme variables. Refer to themes for more details.
`inner_padding`	Optional. Sets inner padding on the component. Defaults to `3` if `bg_colour` is set. Can take on any value from 1 to 17.
`markdown_format`	Optional. Parses the text with a markdown formatter. Defaults to `true`.
`align_list`	Optional. Whether to align every line of the list text. Defaults to `true`. Prior to this option being introduced, default value would be `false`.
`headings_margin`	Optional. Margin added below headings, when using markdown formatting. Defaults to `2`.

Margin values

For the various options targetting margins, the allowed values are detailed here.

Width

For details on the width key, please see here.

Markdown support

The text added to the text key supports markdown (when markdown_format is set to true). This means you can achieve the following:

Bold text by placing text within double asterisks e.g. **Text**
Italic text by placing text within underscores e.g. _Text_
New lines using the characters \n\n
Heading styles 1-4 using # symbols e.g. # Heading One, ## Heading Two.
Hyperlinks using the syntax [Text to hyperlink](https://www.google.com)

Lists support

You can also create lists inside a Text component using markdown in the following way:

{
    "type": "Text",
    "options": {
        "text": "Some content\n\n* List one\n* List two\n* List three\n\nMore content"
    }
}

Notice that the start and end of the list section is guarded by the \n\n newline characters. However, between list items, the characters \n is used.

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