Text

Themed text that receives its colour from the nearest styled parent.

Installation

Terminal

npx magic-native-ui@latest add text

Usage

The example running in the preview above. Imports use the default aliases from components.json.

text-demo.tsx

import { View } from 'react-native'

import { Text } from '@/components/ui/text'

export function TextDemo() {
  return (
    <View className="w-full gap-2">
      <Text className="text-2xl font-bold">Heading</Text>
      <Text>Body copy inherits colour from its parent.</Text>
      <Text className="text-muted-foreground">Muted supporting text.</Text>
    </View>
  )
}

Component source

What the CLI copies into your project. Once it is there, the code is yours to edit.

registry/ui/text.tsx

import * as React from 'react'
import { Text as RNText } from 'react-native'

import { cn } from '@/registry/lib/utils'

/**
 * React Native has no CSS inheritance, so a `<Text>` nested inside a styled
 * parent knows nothing about that parent's colour or size. Components like
 * Button and Badge publish their text classes through this context instead,
 * which is what lets `<Button><Text>Save</Text></Button>` render correctly.
 */
const TextClassContext = React.createContext<string | undefined>(undefined)

function Text({ className, ...props }: React.ComponentProps<typeof RNText>) {
  const textClass = React.useContext(TextClassContext)

  return <RNText className={cn('text-base text-foreground', textClass, className)} {...props} />
}

export { Text, TextClassContext }