# Text formatting in a text node

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/text-formatting-in-a-text-node/70446>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [11 November 2022 13:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/text-formatting-in-a-text-node/70446 "2022-11-11T13:03:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [11 November 2022 15:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/text-formatting-in-a-text-node/70446/10 "2022-11-11T15:49:03Z")

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Well, overall the styling of the dashboard elements should be done with CSS, only minor modifications may or should be done via provided msg parameters. And that is the different approach I was talking before.

See the example of dropdown widget modification.

> [@Dashboard CSS tips - Dropdown](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-css-tips-dropdown/35864):
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> A bit space conservation, more colors and tiny movements in details. [{"id":"cd8c7b3.443fc88","type":"ui\_dropdown","z":"fdcebe88.8ee74","name":"","label":"","tooltip":"","place":"Select option","group":"a605595c.ac6378","order":0,"width":0,"height":0,"passthru":true,"multiple":false,"options":[{"label":"ONE","value":"1","type":"str"},{"label":"TWO","value":"2","type":"str"},{"label":"THREE","value":"3","type":"str"},{"label":"FOUR","value":"4","type":"str"},{"label":"FIVE","value":"5…

But for your use case I can't see the how it can go into the dropdown widgets behavior. It is user input type of widget, not a presentation type.

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