react-native-web/docs/components/Text.md

Text

Text is component for displaying text. It supports style, basic touch handling, and inherits typographic styles from ancestor elements. In a divergence from React Native, components other than Text can be children of a Text component.

The Text is unique relative to layout: child elements use text layout (inline-block) rather than flexbox layout. This means that elements inside of a Text are not rectangles, as they wrap when reaching the edge of their container.

Unsupported React Native props: allowFontScaling (ios), suppressHighlighting (ios)

Props

NOTE: Text will transfer all other props to the rendered HTML element.

(web) accessibilityLabel: string

Defines the text available to assistive technologies upon interaction with the element. (This is implemented using aria-label.)

(web) accessible: bool = true

When false, the text is hidden from assistive technologies. (This is implemented using aria-hidden.)

children: any

Child content.

(web) component: function | string = 'span'

Backing component.

numberOfLines: number

Truncates the text with an ellipsis after this many lines. Currently only supports 1.

onPress: function

This function is called on press.

style: style

• backgroundColor
• color
• direction
• fontFamily
• fontSize
• fontStyle
• fontWeight
• letterSpacing
• lineHeight
• margin
• padding
• textAlign
• textDecoration
• textTransform
• whiteSpace
• wordWrap

testID: string

Used to locate this view in end-to-end tests.

Examples

import React, { Text } from 'react-native-web'

const { Component, PropTypes } = React

class PrettyText extends Component {
  static propTypes = {
    color: PropTypes.oneOf(['white', 'gray', 'red']),
    size: PropTypes.oneOf(['small', 'normal', 'large']),
    weight: PropTypes.oneOf(['light', 'normal', 'bold'])
  }

  static defaultProps = {
    color: 'gray',
    size: 'normal',
    weight: 'normal'
  }

  render() {
    const { color, size, style, weight, ...other } = this.props;

    return (
      <Text
        ...other
        style={{
          ...style,
          ...localStyle.color[color],
          ...localStyle.size[size],
          ...localStyle.weight[weight]
        }}
      />
    );
  }
}

const localStyle = {
  color: {
    white: { color: 'white' },
    gray: { color: 'gray' },
    red: { color: 'red' }
  },
  size: {
    small: { fontSize: '0.85rem', padding: '0.5rem' },
    normal: { fontSize: '1rem', padding: '0.75rem' },
    large: { fontSize: '1.5rem', padding: '1rem' }
  },
  weight: {
    light: { fontWeight: '300' },
    normal: { fontWeight: '400' },
    bold: { fontWeight: '700' }
  }
}