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# Type: String

> Checks that the value is of type string.

export const FormField = ({property, label, required = false, diType, uiPatterns, children}) => {
  const patterns = Array.isArray(uiPatterns) ? uiPatterns : uiPatterns ? [uiPatterns] : [];
  return <div style={{
    margin: '1.5rem 0'
  }}>
      <div style={{
    display: 'flex',
    alignItems: 'baseline',
    flexWrap: 'wrap',
    gap: '0.5rem',
    marginBottom: '0.25rem'
  }}>
        <strong>{label}</strong>
        <span style={{
    fontSize: '0.7rem',
    fontWeight: 600,
    textTransform: 'uppercase',
    letterSpacing: '0.04em',
    color: required ? '#6241f5' : '#6b7280'
  }}>
          {required ? 'Required' : 'Optional'}
        </span>
      </div>

      <div>{children}</div>

      {diType || patterns.length > 0 ? <p style={{
    fontSize: '0.85rem',
    color: '#6b7280',
    marginBottom: 0
  }}>
          {diType ? <>
              See the <a href={`/references/${diType}`}>{diType}</a> reference.{' '}
            </> : null}
          {patterns.length > 0 ? <>
              Accepts a <a href={`/documentation/placeholders-and-patterns/patterns#${patterns[0]}`}>pattern</a>.
            </> : null}
        </p> : null}
    </div>;
};

Checks whether the incoming value is text. Use this wherever a step needs to confirm a value is a piece of text before acting on it, for example to make sure a product name or description is filled in as text rather than as a number or a list. A value matches when it is text, such as `"Blue T-shirt"`, `"SKU-001"`, or even blank text `""`. A number stored as a number (like `42` rather than `"42"`), a true/false value, or a list does not match. This condition has no settings: it looks at whatever value it is given and reports whether that value is text.

This documentation describes: [Schema](/schemas/condition/type-string)

## Fields

This condition has no settings of its own.

## Sample data

This checks each entity's `value` field.

| Incoming value                        | Result         |
| ------------------------------------- | -------------- |
| `"hello"` (text)                      | Matches        |
| `"42"` (a number written as text)     | Matches        |
| `"19.99"` (a decimal written as text) | Matches        |
| `42` (a number)                       | Does not match |
| `true` (an on/off value)              | Does not match |
| `null` (no value)                     | Does not match |
| `["a", "b", "c"]` (a list)            | Does not match |

The check looks at how the value is stored, not how it reads. A number written as text such as `"42"` matches, while the same value stored as a plain number `42` does not.

```json Configuration theme={null}
{
  "prototype": "type-string",
  "parameters": {}
}
```