# Ui-gauge prefix, value & suffix
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-gauge-prefix-value-suffix/100011
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Tags:** dashboard-2
**Created:** [22 December 2025 23:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-gauge-prefix-value-suffix/100011 "2025-12-22T23:57:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)
#### Post date: [22 December 2025 23:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-gauge-prefix-value-suffix/100011/1 "2025-12-22T23:57:03Z")
This gauge roughly imitates [CNN's business page](https://edition.cnn.com/business) Fear & Greed Index
In this instance, msg.payload = 85 and msg.ui\_update.suffix = "Extreme greed"
The HTML for this line is `85 Extreme greed`
If the prefix, value and suffix were seperate items
`85 Extreme greed`
then they could be individually styled, eg
```auto
.nrdb-ui-gauge-value span.value {
display: none;
}
```
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [23 December 2025 09:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-gauge-prefix-value-suffix/100011/2 "2025-12-23T09:19:08Z")
That seems reasonable to me.
It is really easy to build and run the dashboard locally, then you could implement this and submit a PR.
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### Author:  [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)
#### Post date: [23 December 2025 11:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-gauge-prefix-value-suffix/100011/3 "2025-12-23T11:39:52Z")
Well I did try, but it failed at the npm install stage, multiple times and on two different machines.
I think it ran out of swap space, then on subsequent attempts it failed to download Cypress (whatever that is).
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### Author:  [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)
#### Post date: [23 December 2025 11:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-gauge-prefix-value-suffix/100011/4 "2025-12-23T11:42:24Z")
> [@jbudd](#):
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> Cypress (whatever that is).
It's a package for e2e tests (end to end tests) it isn't required for building or running dashboard.
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [23 December 2025 12:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-gauge-prefix-value-suffix/100011/5 "2025-12-23T12:20:52Z")
> [@jbudd](#):
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> failed at the npm install
Are you sure that was the dashboard rather than node red itself? Or were you trying to build it on a pi?
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [23 December 2025 12:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-gauge-prefix-value-suffix/100011/6 "2025-12-23T12:29:00Z")
It doesn't say to install express on the page I linked, does it?
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### Author:  [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)
#### Post date: [23 December 2025 12:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-gauge-prefix-value-suffix/100011/7 "2025-12-23T12:52:50Z")
> [@Colin](#):
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> Or were you trying to build it on a pi?
Yes on a pi Zero 2.
> [@Colin](#):
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> It doesn't say to install express on the page I linked
I don't think so, no.
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [23 December 2025 12:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-gauge-prefix-value-suffix/100011/8 "2025-12-23T12:56:19Z")
> [@jbudd](#):
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> on a pi Zero 2
Test it on your PC rather than a pi zero. It does build ok on a pi 4.
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### Author:  [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)
#### Post date: [23 December 2025 12:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-gauge-prefix-value-suffix/100011/9 "2025-12-23T12:57:37Z")
I don't have Node-red on a PC.
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [23 December 2025 13:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-gauge-prefix-value-suffix/100011/10 "2025-12-23T13:57:01Z")
> [@jbudd](#):
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> > [@Colin](#):
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> > It doesn't say to install express on the page I linked
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> I don't think so, no.
I meant Cypress of course.
> [@jbudd](#):
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> I don't have Node-red on a PC.
There is a hole in my bucket?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [21 February 2026 13:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-gauge-prefix-value-suffix/100011/11 "2026-02-21T13:57:09Z")
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