Text ui-text

Displays a non-editable text field on the user interface. Each received msg.payload will update the value shown alongside the (optional) label.

Properties

Prop	Dynamic	Description
Group		Defines which group of the UI Dashboard this widget will render in.
Size		Controls the width of the button with respect to the parent group. Maximum value is the width of the group.
Label		The text shown within the button.
Layout		Choose how to layout your label (if deifned) & value.
Style		Checkbox to define whether or not to include custom styling for the text. Enabling this will then show the below options.
Font		If "style" is enabled, this will define the font of the text.
Text Size		If "style" is enabled, this will define the size of the text.
Text Color		If "style" is enabled, this will define the color of the text.

Rendering HTML

The ui-text widget supports HTML content (via msg.payload). This allows you to render formatted text, links, images, and more.

Static HTML

For example, injecting:

<a href="https://flowfuse.com" target="_blank">FlowFuse</a>

as a msg.payload would render:

Rendering msg. Content

If you want to render the content of a msg. and still wrap this with HTML, you can use Node-RED's standard template to define the HTML structure:

With the content of the template node set to:

Example of a "template" node to structure HTML content in a Text Node

Dynamic Properties

Dynamic properties are those that can be overriden at runtime by sending a particular msg to the node.

Where appropriate, the underlying values set within Node-RED will be overriden by the values set in the received messages.

Prop	Payload	Structures
Class	msg.class	String

Example

Examples of variants of ui-text rendered in a Dashboard.