Dashboard heading and text cards

Add heading and text cards to your dashboards to label sections, link to other content, display images, and more.

Add a heading or text card

To add a heading or text card to a dashboard:

1. Click the pencil icon to edit the dashboard.
2. Click the text card button in the top right.
3. Choose Heading or Text.

To move a card, click and drag it. To resize a card, click and drag the handle in its bottom right corner.

Click a card to edit the text. Click away from the card to preview the text.

Heading cards

A heading card holds a single line of text. Use a heading card to title a dashboard or label a section of charts.

A few things to know about heading cards:

• The text is always left-aligned.
• The text stays the same size, regardless of how you resize the card.
• You can’t use Markdown in heading cards. Markdown syntax renders as plain text.

You can add a filter value to a heading card using a variable. See Add filter values to a card.

Text cards

A text card displays text you write in Markdown. Add formatting like bold text, lists, links, and images.

Change a text card’s alignment

You can set how text sits inside a text card. Open the card’s Visualization options to choose its alignment:

• Horizontal alignment: Left, Center, or Right.
• Vertical alignment: Top, Middle, or Bottom.

Remove a text card’s background

By default, a text card has a white background. To remove the background, open the card’s Visualization options and disable the Show background toggle.

Here’s the same card with its background on (top) and off (bottom):

Add filter values to a card

You can show the value of a dashboard filter inside a heading or text card. This lets you write text that updates when someone changes the filter.

For example, a card might contain:

Our revenue over {{Date}}:

Then, when someone selects “Previous 30 days” in the connected filter, the card displays:

To add a filter value to a card:

1. Add a filter to your dashboard.
2. Add a variable to your card by wrapping a name in double braces, like {{Date}}.
3. Connect the filter to the card’s variable.

Add an image

If your admin has allowed domains for images, you can add an image to a dashboard. Add a text card and use Markdown image syntax:

![A description of the image](https://example.com/image.png)

You can’t upload an image to Metabase, only link to images hosted elsewhere.