# Text panel
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This documentation topic is designed for Grafana workspaces that support **Grafana version 9.x**.  
For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 12.x, see [Working in Grafana version 12](using-grafana-v12.md).  
For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 10.x, see [Working in Grafana version 10](using-grafana-v10.md).  
For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 8.x, see [Working in Grafana version 8](using-grafana-v8.md).

The text panel enables you to directly include text or HTML in your dashboards. This can be used to add contextual information and descriptions or embed complex HTML.

**Mode**

Mode determines how embedded content appears. It has the following options
+ **Markdown** – This option formats the content as markdown.
+ **HTML** – This setting renders the content as sanitized HTML.
+ **Code** – This setting renders content inside a read-only code editor. Select an appropriate language to apply syntax highlighting to the embedded text.

**Variables**

Variables in the content will be expanded for display.