# text.meta

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

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

## Example

```tsx
<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 for… | Use |
|---|---|
| Small facts about an item: timestamps, authors, @handles, file sizes | `text.meta` (this page) |
| A sentence explaining something | [`text.caption`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/text/caption.md) |
| Dates, authors or file sizes (rather than [`text.caption`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/text/caption.md)) | `text.meta` (this page) |
| Small facts in a line about an item (rather than [`text.value`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/text/value.md)) | `text.meta` (this page) |
| Other numbers about an item, like dates or sizes (rather than [`text.count`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/text/count.md)) | `text.meta` (this page) |
| Small facts about an item, like a date or a count (rather than [`text.address`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/text/address.md)) | `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.small`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/ui.md#typography-small), [`tone.muted`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/ui.md#tone-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`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/ui.md#typography-small) — Small reading type

  ```
  text-xs
  ```

- [`tone.muted`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/ui.md#tone-muted) — Secondary text colour, readable on every surface

  ```
  text-surface-muted
  ```

- `text.meta` (this page) — Small facts about an item: timestamps, authors, @handles, file sizes

  ```
  tabular-nums
  ```

Final classes

```
text-xs text-surface-muted tabular-nums
```

Definition

```ts
'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' },
  ],
},
```