---
title: "Static text | Customer's Canvas Hub"
canonical: "https://customerscanvas.com/docs/hub/admin-guide/workflows/ui-framework/widgets/static-text/"
---

# Static text

> A widget to display some text.

```json
{
    "name": "my-static-text",
    "type": "static-text", 
    "params": {...}
}
```

## Text

This is a simple widget displaying some text in the user interface. To add text, use the `text` property.

![The static text widget](./images/static-text-default.png)

```json
{
    "name": "my-text",
    "type": "static-text",
    "params": {
        "text": "Hello, world!"
    }
}
```

## Title

Like other widgets, `static-text` allows you to enable a title.

![Title for the static text](./images/static-text-title.png)

```json
{
    "name": "my-text",
    "title": "This is your static-text widget.",
    "type": "static-text",
    "params": {
        "text": "Hello, world!"
    }
}
```

## Displaying the content of another widget

You may want to display values of another widget for debug purposes or just to visualize them. 

![Static text shows entered text](./images/static-text-dymanic-expression.gif)

To refer to another widget's value, you can use the `{{$['widget-name']._}}` syntax in the `text` param. In the following example, we display the string entered in the `input-text` widget.

```json
{
    "name": "my-text",
    "title": "This is your static-text widget.",
    "type": "static-text",
    "params": {
        "text": "{{$['my-input']._}}"
    }
},
{
    "name": "my-input",
    "type": "input-text",
    "title": "Input your text",
    "params": {
        "isTextArea": true
    }
}
```

## Params

| Name | Type | Description | Default value |
|--|--|--|--|
| `text`|string|text to be displayed|empty string|