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To display small pieces of information, such as a status or category, use the <Badge> component.

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New

Import

import { Badge } from '@astrojs/starlight/components';

Usage

Display a badge using the <Badge> component and pass the content you want to display to the text attribute of the <Badge> component.

By default, the badge will use the theme accent color of your site. To use a built-in badge color, set the variant attribute to one of the supported values.

import { Badge } from '@astrojs/starlight/components';


<Badge text="Note" variant="note" />
<Badge text="Success" variant="success" />
<Badge text="Tip" variant="tip" />
<Badge text="Caution" variant="caution" />
<Badge text="Danger" variant="danger" />
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Note Success Tip Caution Danger

Use different sizes

Use the size attribute to control the size of the badge text.

import { Badge } from '@astrojs/starlight/components';


<Badge text="New" size="small" />
<Badge text="New and improved" size="medium" />
<Badge text="New, improved, and bigger" size="large" />
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New New and improved New, improved, and bigger

Customize badges

Customize badges by using any other <span> attributes such as class or style with custom CSS.

import { Badge } from '@astrojs/starlight/components';


<Badge text="Custom" variant="success" style={{ fontStyle: 'italic' }} />
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Custom

<Badge> Props

Implementation: Badge.astro

The <Badge> component accepts the following props and also any other <span> attributes:

text

required
type: string

The text content to display in the badge.

variant

type: 'note' | 'danger' | 'success' | 'caution' | 'tip' | 'default'
default: 'default'

The badge color variant to use: note (blue), tip (purple), danger (red), caution (orange), success (green), or default (theme accent color).

size

type: 'small' | 'medium' | 'large'

Defines the size of the badge to display.