textOutput: Create a text output element

In shiny: Web Application Framework for R

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 })
    }
  )
}

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