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st.text

Write text without Markdown or HTML parsing.

For monospace text, use st.code.

Function signature[source]

st.text(body, *, help=None, width="content", text_alignment="left")

Parameters

body (str)

The string to display.

help (str or None)

A tooltip that gets displayed next to the text. If this is None (default), no tooltip is displayed.

The tooltip can optionally contain GitHub-flavored Markdown, including the Markdown directives described in the body parameter of st.markdown.

width ("content", "stretch", or int)

The width of the text element. This can be one of the following:

  • "content" (default): The width of the element matches the width of its content, but doesn't exceed the width of the parent container.
  • "stretch": The width of the element matches the width of the parent container.
  • An integer specifying the width in pixels: The element has a fixed width. If the specified width is greater than the width of the parent container, the width of the element matches the width of the parent container.

text_alignment ("left", "center", "right", or "justify")

The horizontal alignment of the text within the element. This can be one of the following:

  • "left" (default): Text is aligned to the left edge.
  • "center": Text is centered.
  • "right": Text is aligned to the right edge.
  • "justify": Text is justified (stretched to fill the available width with the last line left-aligned).

Note

For text alignment to have a visible effect, the element's width must be wider than its content. If you use width="content" with short text, the alignment may not be noticeable.

Examples

import streamlit as st

st.text("This is text\n[and more text](that's not a Markdown link).")
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