Text

sap.m.Text

Intro

The text control is used to display text. It generally contains the text that developers want apps to display (property: text).

Text used within a form

Usage

Use the text control if you want to display text inside a form, table, or any other content area. Do not use the text control if you need a label, or vice versa.

Responsiveness

The text control is fully adaptive to all screen sizes. You can also set a specific width and overwrite the default value. The resizing behavior depends on the settings that the apps use for the text.

Behavior & Interaction

Hyphenation

The text control supports language-specific hyphenation.

Properties

You can define whether the text should wrap or directly truncate (property: wrapping).

You can also define how often the text should wrap before it truncates (property: maxLines).

For more information about the responsive behavior of text, see Wrapping and Truncating Text.

Note: The truncation indicator for multiple lines depends on the browser line clamping support. For browsers that support it, this will be shown as ellipsis (…), whereas in other browsers, the overflowing text will just be cut off.

Text – Maximum line examples

Resources

Want to dive deeper? Follow the links below to find out more about related controls, the SAPUI5 implementation, and the visual design.

Elements and Controls

Label (guidelines)
Wrapping and Truncating Text (guidelines)

Implementation

Text (SAPUI5 samples)
Text (SAPUI5 API reference)
Hyphenation for Text Controls (SAPUI5 documentation)