mctext-react

This library allows you to display text with Minecraft formatting. It supports JSON (component-based) text as well as strings with formatting codes.
Obfuscated text is also supported and will behave as it does ingame.

Installation

npm i --save mctext-react

Usage

import McText from 'mctext-react'
 
<McText>§4red §lbold red §r§kobfuscated</McText>
<McText>
  {{
    text: '',
    extra: [
      {
        text: 'red ',
        color: 'dark_red'
      },
      {
        text: 'bold red ',
        bold: true,
        color: 'dark_red'
      },
      {
        text: 'obfuscated',
        obfuscated: true
      }
    ]
  }}
</McText>

Properties

Name	Type	Default	Description
children *	string or object		The text to display, see above.
colormap	object	see below	An alternate colormap used to map Minecraft colors to CSS colors.
randomChars	string	A…Za…z0…9!§$%&?#	Characters to use for obfuscated text.
prefix	string	§	Character to use for color prefix, usually § or &.
style	object		Override the style of the text.

* required property

Colormap

The sixteen Minecraft colors are mapped to CSS colors by using a colormap. The default colormap uses the colors from the Minecraft Wiki.

Related projects

• McTextBlock is a WPF component that displays Minecraft formatted text. It only supports strings with formatting codes.

License

The files included in this repository are licensed under the MIT license.