Detail Text

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Detail text is typography used for short pieces of secondary text content.

Version 3.1.0

const DetailTextExample = () => {
  return (
    <Box maxWidth='size30'>
      <Box as='img' alt='' src='/images/detail-text/detail-text-image.png' maxWidth='100%' />
      <DetailText>
        Your sender identity is the “from” email address your recipients will see in their inbox.
      </DetailText>
    </Box>
  );
};
render(<DetailTextExample />)

Guidelines

About Detail Text

The Detail Text component is used for small pieces of text that are secondary to body text in the hierarchy of a page. Common examples include an image caption, chart element legend, or a paragraph footnote.

Detail Text should not be used for body text, and should be reserved for small pieces of content only. It should not be used solely for its stylistic properties within other typographic elements.

Accessibility

The Detail Text component is a div element by default. You can modify the element in situations where a div isn’t semantically correct. For example, set as=”figcaption” if working with Detail Text inside a figure element.

If your Detail Text is used to describe another element, use an id for the Detail Text component and aria-describedby for the other element to make the connection clear.

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Detail Text is not the same as alt text on images. The context and content of your usage might mean including alt text for further detail, or making alt text an empty string to prevent redundancy. Learn more about alt text and when to use it.

Examples

Detail Text below an image

Use Detail Text to add a caption below an image.

const DetailTextExample = () => {
  return (
    <Box maxWidth='size30'>
      <Box as='img' alt='' src='/images/detail-text/detail-text-image.png' maxWidth='100%' />
      <DetailText>
        Your sender identity is the “from” email address your recipients will see in their inbox.
      </DetailText>
    </Box>
  );
};
render(<DetailTextExample />)

Detail Text below primary content

Use Detail Text to add a description below primary content for extra context.

const DetailTextExample = () => {
  return (
    <Table>
      <THead>
        <Tr>
          <Th>User</Th>
          <Th>Skills</Th>
          <Th textAlign="right">Tasks</Th>
        </Tr>
      </THead>
      <TBody>
        <Tr>
          <Th scope="row">
            <Text as="span">
              Adam Brown
            </Text>
            <DetailText marginTop='space0'>adam@brown.com</DetailText>
          </Th>
          <Td>English, French, Sales, Spanish</Td>
          <Td textAlign="right">35</Td>
        </Tr>
        <Tr>
          <Th scope="row">
            <Text as="span">
              Adriana Lovelock
            </Text>
            <DetailText marginTop='space0'>adriana@lovelock.com</DetailText>
          </Th>
          <Td>English, French, Sales, Spanish</Td>
          <Td textAlign="right">28</Td>
        </Tr>
        <Tr>
          <Th scope="row">
            <Text as="span">
              Amanda Cutlack
            </Text>
            <DetailText marginTop='space0'>amanda@cutlack.com</DetailText>
          </Th>
          <Td>English, French, Sales, Spanish</Td>
          <Td textAlign="right">7</Td>
        </Tr>
      </TBody>
    </Table>
  );
};
render(<DetailTextExample />)

Detail Text with no top margin

Detail Text includes a marginTop prop to remove its default top margin of space30.

const DetailTextExample = () => {
  return (
    <Box maxWidth='size30'>
      <Card>
        <Heading
          as='h3'
          variant='heading50'
          marginBottom='space0'
        >
          Average handle time
        </Heading>
        <Box display='grid' gridTemplateColumns='1fr auto' marginTop='space70' marginBottom='space90'>
          <Text
            fontWeight='fontWeightSemibold'
            fontSize='fontSize90'
            lineHeight='lineHeight70'
          >
            3m
          </Text>
          <Box display='flex' flexDirection='row' alignItems='center' color='colorTextPrimary'>
            <ArrowUpIcon decorative={true} size='sizeIcon80' />
            <Text
              fontWeight='fontWeightSemibold'
              fontSize='fontSize90'
              lineHeight='lineHeight70'
              color='inherit'
            >
              8%
            </Text>
          </Box>
        </Box>
        <Text fontSize='fontSize30' lineHeight='lineHeight60'>Handle time by hour</Text>
        <Box
          as='img'
          src='/images/detail-text/graph.png'
          maxWidth='100%'
          marginBottom='space90'
          alt='Sample graph showing how the handle time increased after 10:00 AM today compared to yesterday.'
        />
        <Box display='grid' gridTemplateColumns='1fr auto' columnGap='space50'>
          <Box
            display='flex'
            flexDirection='row'
            justifyContent='flex-end'
            columnGap='space40'
            alignItems='center'
          >
            <Box
              borderTopStyle='solid'
              borderTopColor='colorBorderPrimary'
              borderTopWidth='borderWidth20'
              width='sizeSquare50'
            />
            <DetailText marginTop='space0'>Today</DetailText>
          </Box>
          <Box
            display='flex'
            flexDirection='row'
            justifyContent='flex-end'
            columnGap='space40'
            alignItems='center'
          >
            <Box
              borderTopStyle='dashed'
              borderTopColor='colorBorderWeak'
              borderTopWidth='borderWidth20'
              width='sizeSquare50'
            />
            <DetailText marginTop='space0'>Yesterday</DetailText>
          </Box>
        </Box>
      </Card>
    </Box>
  );
};
render(<DetailTextExample />)

Detail Text as a footnote

Use Detail Text to add a footnote below a paragraph.

const DetailTextExample = () => {
  return (
    <>
      <Heading as='h2' variant='heading20'>Auth tokens</Heading>
      <Paragraph>
        Auth tokens can be used to authenticate while making API requests. You will need to use HTTP Basic Authentication with user = Account SID and password = AuthToken. Auth tokens are specific to your account and can be used to access all API’s for the account.
      </Paragraph>
      <DetailText>
        *Please keep the auth tokens in a secure place and rotate them periodically.
      </DetailText>
    </>
  );
};
render(<DetailTextExample />)

When to use Detail Text

Do

Use Detail Text for small pieces of text that are not the main content of the UI, like graph legends and image captions

Don't

Don’t use Detail Text for body content. Consider using Paragraph instead.

Do

Use Detail Text semantically

Don't

Don’t use Detail Text for stylistic purposes within other typography. Consider using the Text primitive instead.