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textOutput

Create a text output element

Description

Render a reactive output variable as text within an application page. textOutput() is usually paired with renderText() and puts regular text in <div> or <span>; verbatimTextOutput() is usually paired with renderPrint() and provides fixed-width text in a <pre>.

Usage

textOutput(outputId, container = if (inline) span else div, inline = FALSE)

verbatimTextOutput(outputId, placeholder = FALSE)

Arguments

`outputId`	output variable to read the value from
`container`	a function to generate an HTML element to contain the text
`inline`	use an inline (`span()`) or block container (`div()`) for the output
`placeholder`	if the output is empty or `NULL`, should an empty rectangle be displayed to serve as a placeholder? (does not affect behavior when the output is nonempty)

Details

In both functions, text is HTML-escaped prior to rendering.

Value

An output element for use in UI.

Examples

## Only run this example in interactive R sessions
if (interactive()) {
  shinyApp(
    ui = basicPage(
      textInput("txt", "Enter the text to display below:"),
      textOutput("text"),
      verbatimTextOutput("verb")
    ),
    server = function(input, output) {
      output$text <- renderText({ input$txt })
      output$verb <- renderText({ input$txt })
    }
  )
}

shiny

Web Application Framework for R

v1.6.0

GPL-3 | file LICENSE

Authors

Winston Chang [aut, cre], Joe Cheng [aut], JJ Allaire [aut], Carson Sievert [aut], Barret Schloerke [aut], Yihui Xie [aut], Jeff Allen [aut], Jonathan McPherson [aut], Alan Dipert [aut], Barbara Borges [aut], RStudio [cph], jQuery Foundation [cph] (jQuery library and jQuery UI library), jQuery contributors [ctb, cph] (jQuery library; authors listed in inst/www/shared/jquery-AUTHORS.txt), jQuery UI contributors [ctb, cph] (jQuery UI library; authors listed in inst/www/shared/jqueryui/AUTHORS.txt), Mark Otto [ctb] (Bootstrap library), Jacob Thornton [ctb] (Bootstrap library), Bootstrap contributors [ctb] (Bootstrap library), Twitter, Inc [cph] (Bootstrap library), Prem Nawaz Khan [ctb] (Bootstrap accessibility plugin), Victor Tsaran [ctb] (Bootstrap accessibility plugin), Dennis Lembree [ctb] (Bootstrap accessibility plugin), Srinivasu Chakravarthula [ctb] (Bootstrap accessibility plugin), Cathy O'Connor [ctb] (Bootstrap accessibility plugin), PayPal, Inc [cph] (Bootstrap accessibility plugin), Stefan Petre [ctb, cph] (Bootstrap-datepicker library), Andrew Rowls [ctb, cph] (Bootstrap-datepicker library), Dave Gandy [ctb, cph] (Font-Awesome font), Brian Reavis [ctb, cph] (selectize.js library), Salmen Bejaoui [ctb, cph] (selectize-plugin-a11y library), Denis Ineshin [ctb, cph] (ion.rangeSlider library), Sami Samhuri [ctb, cph] (Javascript strftime library), SpryMedia Limited [ctb, cph] (DataTables library), John Fraser [ctb, cph] (showdown.js library), John Gruber [ctb, cph] (showdown.js library), Ivan Sagalaev [ctb, cph] (highlight.js library), R Core Team [ctb, cph] (tar implementation from R)

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