# `<text>`

Renders its inner text content (whatever's between `<text>` and `</text>`, after Jinja has expanded it)
as a block of text.

```xml
<text x="10" y="10" size="40" font="home/Roboto-Bold.ttf" color="white">
    {{ timestamp.strftime('%A, %B %d') }}
</text>
```

## Properties

The tag's content (the text between `<text>` and `</text>`, after Jinja has expanded it) is the string
drawn — it isn't one of the attributes below. Whitespace from template indentation is included verbatim,
since it's just XML text content — keep tags tight around the text if stray leading/trailing whitespace
or newlines would matter for width calculations.

```{eval-rst}
.. autopydantic_model:: todays_paper_web.widgets.core.text.TextParams
   :inherited-members: BaseModel
```

`color` accepts a CSS color name or a `#hex` code; unlike most other widgets in this reference, an
unrecognized `color` here raises a render error rather than silently falling back to black (see
{doc}`../api/index`).

## Positioning

`<text>` doesn't interpret `x`, `y`, `align`, or `valign` itself — those are read by whichever container
it's placed in (`<box>`, `<row>`, `<column>`) to decide where to put the rendered text block, as
`ViewParams` above already shows. See {doc}`layout` for exactly how each container uses them.