---
title: "custom text · RUAL Documentation"
description: "RUAL state ui block."
canonical: https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/state%20ui/state_text
language: en
---

# custom text

This block is part of the [`state ui`](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/state%20ui) group and was last modified in core [`v13.0.6`](https://docs.rual.nl/core-versions/130006).

- value required `value`

- class `uiclass` Assigns a CSS class to the element. • Hidden when unused

- style `uistyle` Applies inline CSS style to the element • Hidden when unused

- attributes `uiattributes` Adds custom attributes to the element. • Hidden when unused

- state `state` Returns the element to the frontend state.

[custom text](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/state%20ui/state_text) renders the value on its pin as text. A [value](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/value/value_default) block provides the words here, and the element sits inside a [paragraph](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/state%20ui/state_p) in a [div](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/state%20ui/state_div), the standard content nesting.

![Studio canvas example for the custom text block: text on the page.](https://docs.rual.nl/canvas-examples/state_text.png)

### Commonly used with

In production blueprints, this block is most often wired together with:

- [paragraph](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/state%20ui/state_p): this block feeds into it. A paragraph element.

- [translate key](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/translations/value_translate_key): feeds into this block. Translates a given key.

- [value](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/value/value_default): feeds into this block. Simply returns the provided value.

- [div](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/state%20ui/state_div): this block feeds into it. Creates a dynamic and customizable div element on your web page.

- [custom](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/ui%20class/uiclass_custom): feeds into this block. Custom class input.

- [hyperlink](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/state%20ui/state_a): this block feeds into it. A anchor element, that can be used to create an link to an intern/extern page.

### Used in these guides

These documentation pages use or explain this block:

- [Tips & tricks](https://docs.rual.nl/blueprints/tips-and-tricks)

### Version history

Introduced in [`v13.0.1`](https://docs.rual.nl/core-versions/130001).

Last modified in [`v13.0.6`](https://docs.rual.nl/core-versions/130006).

- [Back to `state ui`](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/state%20ui): Return to the main group to view all sub-groups

- [Back to `state elements`](https://docs.rual.nl/block-types/state%20ui?group=state%20elements): Return to the group to view all blocks within this group