For dashboard 1 i could just edit the value format but this is not possible anymore for the text output in dashboard 2. Is there a simple way i don't see? I would like to add dimensions after the values, e.g. "value" °C

Edit: [image] Insert units to a field on dashboard text Dashboard Hi @AnakinO7 welcome to the forums. In core Node-RED, there is a "template" node (the orange one, not ui-template). It allows you to combine incoming messages and message properties, with text, for example…

@smanjunath211 I believe @joepavitt is talking about the standard template node in that post, not ui-template.

Indeed I am - I will add this to the ui-text documentation explicitly as the only example we have now covers rendering a link, but the method is the same

I'd go for CSS option to gain full control over the appearance of the suffix. So you add a class to the text widget: [image] And a bit of css to get it done: .temperature-field .nrdb-ui-text-value::after { content: "°C"; padding-left: 0.125rem; vertical-align: super; font-size: s…

Using CSS option looks nice especially as i need similar function elsewhere. But where would i create CSS class?

CSS can be defined in a UI Template node with type "CSS (All Pages)" - Docs

Isn't it a bit of an anti-pattern to include the text to display in CSS? It would certainly be tricky for someone looking at the flow in a couple of years time to work out where the °C comes from.

As the definition says: In CSS, ::after creates a pseudo-element that is the last child of the selected element. It is often used to add cosmetic content to an element with the content property. It is inline by default. Can't see any anti pattern here

[image] Colin: looking at the flow in a couple of years time to work out where the °C comes from This stays always a case even without CSS involved. To avoid this kind of issues i think the best thing is to name your things so that they say what they are or what they do. So instead of the te…

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