Text

Text is a control for displaying text.

Examples

Live demo

Size

Python

import pglet
from pglet import Text
with pglet.page("text-size") as page:
  
  page.add(
    Text('tiny', size='tiny'),
    Text('xSmall', size='xSmall'),
    Text('small', size='small'),
    Text('smallPlus', size='smallPlus'),
    Text('medium', size='medium'),
    Text('mediumPlus', size='mediumPlus'),
    Text('large', size='large'),
    Text('xLarge', size='xLarge'),
    Text('xxLarge', size='xxLarge'),
    Text('superLarge', size='superLarge'),
    Text('mega', size='mega'))

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Font styles

Python

import pglet
from pglet import Text
with pglet.page("text-with-different-font-styles") as page:
  
  page.add(
    Text('Bold', bold=True),
    Text('Italic', italic=True),
    Text('Preformatted text in monospace font', pre=True))
  

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Horizontal and vertical alignments

Python

import pglet
from pglet import Text, Stack
with pglet.page("text-alignments") as page:
  
  page.add(
    Stack(horizontal=True, controls=[
            Text('left top', align='left', vertical_align='top', width=100, height=100, bgcolor='salmon', color='white', padding=5),
            Text('center top', align='center', vertical_align='top', width=100, height=100, bgcolor='salmon', color='white', padding=5, size='large', border='1px solid #555'),
            Text('right top', align='right', vertical_align='top', width=100, height=100, bgcolor='salmon', color='white', padding=5, border='2px solid #555')
        ]),
        Stack(horizontal=True, controls=[
            Text('left center', align='left', vertical_align='center', width=100, height=100, bgcolor='PaleGoldenrod', padding=5),
            Text('center center', align='center', vertical_align='center', width=100, height=100, bgcolor='PaleGoldenrod', padding=5, size='large', border='1px solid #555'),
            Text('right center', align='right', vertical_align='center', width=100, height=100, bgcolor='PaleGoldenrod', padding=5, border='2px solid #555')
        ]),
        Stack(horizontal=True, controls=[
            Text('left bottom', align='left', vertical_align='bottom', width=100, height=100, bgcolor='PaleGreen', padding=5),
            Text('center bottom', align='center', vertical_align='bottom', width=100, height=100, bgcolor='PaleGreen', padding=5, size='large', border='1px solid #555'),
            Text('right bottom', align='right', vertical_align='bottom', width=100, height=100, bgcolor='PaleGreen', padding=5, border='2px solid #555')
        ]))
  

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Border with rounded corners

Python

import pglet
from pglet import Text, Stack
with pglet.page("text-rounded-corners") as page:
  
  page.add(Stack(horizontal=True, controls=[
    Text('Border radius 10% of width/height', align='center', vertical_align='center', width=100, height=100, border_radius=10, bgcolor='salmon'),
    Text('Border radius 25% of width/height', align='center', vertical_align='center', width=100, height=100, border_radius=25, bgcolor='PaleGoldenrod', border='1px solid #555'),
    Text('Border radius 50% of width/height', align='center', vertical_align='center', width=100, height=100, border_radius=50, bgcolor='PaleGreen', border='2px solid #555')
    ])
  )

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Markdown

Python

import pglet
from pglet import Text
with pglet.page("text-markdown") as page:
  
  page.add(Text('''
# Heading1

## Autolink literals

www.example.com, https://example.com, and [email protected].

## Strikethrough

~one~ or ~~two~~ tildes.

### Code sample

```
import pglet
page = page.page()
```

## Table

| a | b  |  c |  d  |
| - | :- | -: | :-: |

        ''', markdown=True))

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Properties

Name	Type	Default	Description
value	string		The text displayed.
markdown	bool	false	Treat value as markdown. GitHub Flavored Markdown is supported.
align	string	left	left, center, right, justify
verticalAlign	string		top, center, bottom
size	string		tiny, xSmall, small, smallPlus, medium, mediumPlus, large, xLarge, xxLarge, superLarge, mega
bold	bool	false	Whether font weight is bold.
italic	bool	false	Whether font style is italic.
pre	bool	false	Preformatted text in monospace font.
nowrap	bool	false	Whether the text is not wrapped.
block	bool	false	Whether the text is displayed as a block element.
color	string		Font color.
bgcolor	string		Text background color.
borderWidth	string		Border width in pixels around control, e.g. 1. Multiple values separated with spaces can be provided to set border width for each of the sides: top right bottom left, e.g. 2 0 2 0.
borderColor	string		Border color around control. Multiple values separated with spaces can be provided to set border color for each of the sides: top right bottom left, e.g. yellow green blue gray.
borderStyle	string		Border style around control: none (default), dotted, dashed, solid, double, groove, ridge, inset, outset. Multiple values separated with spaces can be provided to set border style for each of the sides: top right bottom left, e.g. solid none none none.
borderRadius	string		Border radius in pixels around control, e.g. 5. Multiple values separated with spaces can be provided to set border style for each of the sides: top right bottom left, e.g. 10 10 0 0.