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text.excerpt

A short extract of a longer text, shown as a preview: an article summary

Component

<Text>

Renders

<p>

Profile

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Text intents

Example

Preview

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

<Text intent="text.excerpt">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

    Use

  • A short extract of a longer text, shown as a preview: an article summary

    text.excerpt this page

  • The full text

    text.body

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.

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.excerpt 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.small

    Small reading type

    text-xs
  • tone.muted

    Secondary text colour, readable on every surface

    text-surface-muted
  • text.excerpt

    A short extract of a longer text, shown as a preview: an article summary

    line-clamp-2
Final classes
text-xs text-surface-muted line-clamp-2
Definition
TS
'text.excerpt': {
  kind: 'semantic',
  description: 'A short extract of a longer text, shown as a preview: an article summary',
  refs: ['typography.small', 'tone.muted'],
  binding: { element: 'p', classes: 'line-clamp-2' },
  notFor: [{ context: 'the full text', instead: 'text.body' }],
},