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# Text

Allows you to display text box controls for your widget.

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**Widget Configuration Output**

```json showLineNumbers={false}
{
  "bodyText": "This is some text."
}
```

> **Note**
>
> New line characters are not supported.

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**User Interface Output**

![output](/_fern-img/1c7924be55cbca45ace9cb29f45714719bcbf07c6eee54ffb62ba8cc9c3f1c23.webp)

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**JSON Schema**

| Property  | Type   | Description                                                                         | Example              |
| --------- | ------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------- |
| `type`    | string | The type of setting component to display.                                           | text                 |
| `label`   | string | The user friendly message to inform the user how this setting will be used.         | Body text            |
| `id`      | string | The variable name where the setting value will be available in the widget template. | bodyText             |
| `default` | string | The default value to use when rendering the widget for the first time.              | "This is some text." |