From titles to paragraphs, captions and more, text elements are a key part of most UI. Play lets you customize your text while staying within the bounds of technical feasibility. You’re able to edit text in the Element Settings Panel.

Enter the text copy.

Play also provides auto-fill copy for CTA, Name, Date, Address, City, Short Headline, Long Headline, Paragraph, and Multi-Paragraph from the Context Bar settings.

Select the font family for the text.

Instead of selecting a font family, you can also select one of Apple's System Styles or a custom Type style from the project by clicking on the four-circle icon.

To revert to the default System Font, click the green dot next to the Font / Style property.

Set the weight from the options available for the selected font.

Set the font size. (not available for Custom or System Styles)

Set the font's design to default, monospaced, rounded, serif, compressed, condensed, or expanded (only available for System Font and System Styles):

Select the color of the text.

Set the letter spacing and line height, as a point value or a percent.

Set the horizontal (left, center, right, or justified) and vertical (top, center, bottom) alignment.

Choose if the text can be edited when tapped by the user. Any copy the user enters will be saved as the text element for the Play session.

Natively, UIKit does not support multi-line text fields, but you can use an editable text element as a multi-line text field.

Choose if the text can be selected when a user double-taps it. The native edit menu will appear, allowing users to drag the selector and use the native options that appear, like Copy, Look Up, Translate, and more. All that functionality is built in and completely native.

Set the keyboard’s type to default, email, number pad, or phone pad.

Set the return key's CTA to Go, Google, Join, Next, Route, Search, Send, Done, or Continue.

Choose if the keyboard should close when the user hits the return key.

Choose if the text field will use auto-correction.

Set the text field's expected input type so the system has information. Set the type to None, URL, City, State, City And State, Country, Credit Card Number, Date, Time or Duration, Email Address, Flight Number, Shipment Tracking Number, Full Street Address, Name, Name Prefix, Name Suffix, Given Name, Family Name, Job Title, Postal Code, Sublocality, Username, Password, New Password, or One Time Code

Choose if the dismiss button is visible on your text field.

Set if the text should be all uppercase, lowercase, title case, or as typed.

Choose to underline or strike through the text.

Add a URL link from a text element by highlighting the text and pasting the URL.

Whether the text is editable.

Whether the text is selectable.

Keyboard type set on the trigger.

Current letter spacing of the text element.

Current line height of the text element.

Current text size of the text element.

Current string value of the text element.

Current content type of the text element.

Text elements also have access to general object properties.

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