Text Action Element

A very simple element for picture-elements card that shows static text that supports a tap action. I needed this component since I was building a media control panel using picture-elements and ran in to rendering bugs on iOS (in HA app). To solve that I generated a font using glyphter.com and I needed a component to render the text but still make it a button. So I made this component as a lightweight alternative to custom button elements.

Using the card

Element options

Name	Type	Default	Since	Description
type	string	required	v0.1	custom:text-action-element
text	string	required	v0.1	Text to display (EITHER text or icon must be specified)
icon	string	required	v0.3	Icon to display (EITHER icon or text must be specified)
entity	string		v0.1	Entity that tap_action should operate on (no need to provide if you just want static text)
tap_action	object		v0.1	See Action
state_filter	list		v0.1	State based CSS filters. See this link for usage docs.

Action

Name	Type	Default	Supported options	Description
action	string	toggle	more-info, toggle, call-service, none, navigate, url	Action to perform
navigation_path	string	none	Eg: /lovelace/0/	Path to navigate to (e.g. /lovelace/0/) when action defined as navigate
url	string	none	Eg: https://www.google.fr	URL to open on click when action is url. The URL will open in a new tab
service	string	none	Any service	Service to call (e.g. media_player.media_play_pause) when action defined as call-service
service_data	object	none	Any service data	Service data to include (e.g. entity_id: media_player.bedroom) when action defined as call-service. If your service_data requires an entity_id, you can use the keywork entity, this will actually call the service on the entity defined in the main configuration of this card. Useful for configuration templates

Example usage

- type: picture-elements
  image: /local/LivingRoom.jpg
  elements:
    - type: 'custom:text-action-element'
      text: Lights on!
      style:
        top: 40%
        height: 15%
        width: 23%
        left: 53%
        background-color: 'rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.6)'
        border-radius: 10px
      entity: light.livingroom
      tap_action:
        action: toggle

Icon with no action

- type: picture-elements
  image: /local/LivingRoom.jpg
  elements:
    - type: 'custom:text-action-element'
      icon: mdi:television
      style:
        top: 40%
        height: 15%
        width: 23%
        left: 53%
        background-color: 'rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.6)'
        border-radius: 10px
      entity: light.livingroom
      tap_action:
        action: none

Install

Simple install

1. Download and copy text-action-element-bundle.js from the latest release into your config/www directory.

2. Add a reference to text-action-element-bundle.js in lovelace.

resources:
  - url: /local/text-action-element-bundle.js?v=0.3.0
    type: module

To do this, go to Configure UI -> Raw Config Editor and paste this under resources or use YAML Mode (not recommended))

CLI install

1. Move into your config/www directory

2. Grab text-action-element-bundle.js

$ wget https://github.com/custom-cards/text-action-element/releases/download/0.3.0/text-action-element-bundle.js

3. Add a reference to text-action-element-bundle.js inside your ui-lovelace.yaml.

resources:
  - url: /local/text-action-element-bundle.js?v=0.3.0
    type: module

(Optional) Add to custom updater

1. Make sure you have the custom_updater component installed and working.

2. Add a new reference under card_urls in your custom_updater configuration in configuration.yaml. //todo: implement tracker

custom_updater:
  card_urls:
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/custom-cards/text-action-element/master/tracker.json

Updating

1. Find your text-action-element-bundle.js file in config/www or wherever you ended up storing it.

2. Replace the local file with the latest one attached in the latest release.

3. Add the new version number to the end of the cards reference url in your ui-lovelace.yaml like below.

resources:
  - url: /local/text-action-element-bundle.js?v=0.3.0
    type: module

You may need to empty the browsers cache if you have problems loading the updated card.

Getting errors?

Make sure you have javascript_version: latest in your configuration.yaml under frontend:.

Make sure you have the latest version of text-action-element-bundle.js.

If you have issues after updating the card, try clearing your browsers cache or restart Home Assistant.

If you get "Custom element doesn't exist: text-action-element" or running older browsers try replacing type: module with type: js in your resource reference, like below.

resources:
  - url: ...
    type: js

License

This project is under the Apache 2.0 license.