A React Native component for easy rendering of styled text.
npm install react-native-styled-textThe purpose of this library is to support easy rendering of mixed text styles.


The library implements a StyledText component taking an HTML-like string in the children property and an optional text styles property.
Online demo on expo.io
To install the library into your project, run yarn or npm:
yarn add react-native-styled-text
or
npm i react-native-styled-text
For simple styling StyledText supports some predefined styles:
- b: bold
- i: _italic_
- u: underline
Example:
``javascript
import { StyleSheet } from 'react-native';
import StyledText from 'react-native-styled-text';
...
>
{"Happy Styling!"}
...
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
header: {
fontSize: 24,
color: 'orange',
textAlign: 'center',
padding: 30,
},
});
`
Renders as

For richer styling, you set the textStyles property of StyledText to an object (e.g. StyleSheet) containing your custom text styles and apply these styles in the text property.
Example:
`javascript
import { StyleSheet } from 'react-native';
import StyledText from 'react-native-styled-text';
...
textStyles={textStyles}
>
{"Welcome to React Native
...
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
welcome: {
fontSize: 20,
textAlign: 'center',
padding: 30,
},
});
const textStyles = StyleSheet.create({
demo: {
textShadowOffset: { width: 2, height: 2 },
textShadowColor: '#555555',
textShadowRadius: 6,
fontSize: 24,
color: '#22AA44',
},
});
`
Renders as

Internally, the render function of StyledText parses the value of the children property, which must be a string, and returns a nested structure of React Native Text components.
From the example above:
`javascript`
would be transformed to:
`javascript`
Ha
So StyledText just provides a more compact, readable and flexible coding of nested Text components.
In addition to the React Native Text properties, StyledText supports the following properties, with a restriction on the children proerty:
| Name | Description |
| ---------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| children | String with style tags for mixed styling of the text. Each style tag must match one of the styles provided in textStyles or one of the default styles, see below. (Optional) |
| textStyles | Object (e.g. StyleSheet`) containing definition of the styles used in the provided text. (Optional) |
The following default styles are defined:
| Name | Description |
| ---- | ----------- |
| b | bold |
| i | _italic_ |
| u | underline |
Bjørn Egil Hansen (@bjornegil)
Fram X - a cross platform app company from Norway.