# text.body

Running text: sentences and paragraphs that explain something

Component: [`<Text>`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/components/text.md) · Renders: `<p>` · Profile: [UI](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/ui.md)

## Example

```tsx
<Text intent="text.body">Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.</Text>
```

## Choosing between neighbours

Find the row that describes your element, and use the intent on the right.

| If it is for… | Use |
|---|---|
| Running text: sentences and paragraphs that explain something | `text.body` (this page) |
| The introduction right under a page title | [`text.lead`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/text/lead.md) |
| Running text (rather than [`text.quote`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/text/quote.md)) | `text.body` (this page) |
| The full text (rather than [`text.excerpt`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/text/excerpt.md)) | `text.body` (this page) |
| A sentence that mentions code; wrap the code in <code> inside text.body (rather than [`text.code`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/text/code.md)) | `text.body` (this page) |

## Connections

Declared in the registry, both directions. Where an intent is used in your own code is something check and the gallery see; this site has no app code.

- Built from: [`typography.body`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/ui.md#typography-body), [`tone.soft`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/ui.md#tone-soft)

## For registry authors

**Starter intents.** These are the intents `prongs add` puts in your registry, shown in this site’s theme. Yours are your own `registry.ts`: rename, restyle and add to them, and see them with `prongs add gallery`.

What this intent is built from and its entry in `components/prongs/registry.ts`. You only need this to change how it looks or to add an intent like it.

How text.body resolves, and its definition

Each layer adds to the one before it; a later class wins over an earlier one that sets the same thing.

- [`typography.body`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/ui.md#typography-body) — Reading type

  ```
  text-sm leading-6
  ```

- [`tone.soft`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/ui.md#tone-soft) — Text colour between main and muted, for introductions

  ```
  text-soft
  ```

- `text.body` (this page) — Running text: sentences and paragraphs that explain something

Final classes

```
text-sm leading-6 text-soft
```

Definition

```ts
'text.body': {
  kind: 'semantic',
  description: 'Running text: sentences and paragraphs that explain something',
  refs: ['typography.body', 'tone.soft'],
  binding: { element: 'p' },
  notFor: [
    {
      context: 'the introduction right under a page title',
      instead: 'text.lead',
    },
  ],
},
```