text.meta

Small facts about an item: timestamps, authors, @handles, file sizes

Component

<Text>

Renders

<span>

Profile

View as Markdown

Text intents

Example

Preview

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

<Text intent="text.meta">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
Small facts about an item: timestamps, authors, @handles, file sizes
text.meta this page
A sentence explaining something
text.caption
Dates, authors or file sizes
rather than text.caption
text.meta this page
Small facts in a line about an item
rather than text.value
text.meta this page
Other numbers about an item, like dates or sizes
rather than text.count
text.meta this page
Small facts about an item, like a date or a count
rather than text.address
text.meta 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.smalltone.muted

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.meta 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.meta
Small facts about an item: timestamps, authors, @handles, file sizes
```
tabular-nums
```

Final classes

text-xs text-surface-muted tabular-nums

Definition

'text.meta': {
  kind: 'semantic',
  description: 'Small facts about an item: timestamps, authors, @handles, file sizes',
  refs: ['typography.small', 'tone.muted'],
  binding: { element: 'span', classes: 'tabular-nums' },
  notFor: [
    { context: 'a sentence explaining something', instead: 'text.caption' },
  ],
},