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# Configuring Text Panels in a Custom Dashboard

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Configure HTML and Markdown text panels in Anypoint Monitoring custom dashboards.

## Before You Begin

Create or navigate to the text panel you plan to configure:

- If your text panel exists, open its configuration view:

  1.  From **Custom Dashboards**, open the custom dashboard that contains your text panel.

      For guidance, see [View a Custom Dashboard](https://docs.mulesoft.com/monitoring/dashboard-custom-config#view).

  2.  Click the text panel’s ![](/mulesoft/current/en-us/monitoring/_images/more-menu-vert-ellipsis.png) (**More menu**), and select
      **Configure**.

- If the text panel doesn’t exist:

  1.  Create the text panel.

      For guidance, see [Add Charts to a Custom Dashboard](https://docs.mulesoft.com/monitoring/dashboard-custom-config#charts_adding).

  2.  Navigate to its configuration view.

## Create a Text Panel

Create a text panel in a custom dashboard by following the guidance in
[Add Charts to a Custom Dashboard](https://docs.mulesoft.com/monitoring/dashboard-custom-config#charts_adding).

## Configure a Text Panel

Configure a panel with HTML or Markdown text in a custom dashboard.

1.  From **Custom Dashboards**, open the custom dashboard that contains your text panel.

    For guidance, see [View a Custom Dashboard](https://docs.mulesoft.com/monitoring/dashboard-custom-config#view).

2.  Click the panel’s ![](/mulesoft/current/en-us/monitoring/_images/more-menu-vert-ellipsis.png) (**More menu**), and select
    **Configure** to open the panel’s **General** configuration tab:

    1.  Provide a title and description.

    2.  Select the **markdown** or **html** mode.

    3.  Provide content in the selected mode.

        For examples and more detailed steps, see:

        - [Add Markdown to a Text Panel](#markdown)

        - [Add HTML to a Text Panel](#html)

3.  Click **Apply Changes**.

4.  Exit the configuration view by clicking the **X** next to the configuration tabs.

## Add Markdown to a Text Panel

This Markdown example shows how your text appears in the UI as you type.

![A text editor that uses Markdown to format text.](/mulesoft/current/en-us/monitoring/_images/text-config.png)

Figure 1. Markdown Example

## Add HTML to a Text Panel

This HTML example creates the heading shown in [Text example](https://docs.mulesoft.com/monitoring/dashboard-custom-config#text_example):

![An HTML example](/mulesoft/current/en-us/monitoring/_images/dashboard-text-config-html.png)