Having text label or text sections as Entities / Helper

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Dear Community

I am a newby in this beautiful HomeAssistant, and wanted to expose in an Entity-Card also some text to remind me of some specal cases and/or reading instructions on these.

I searched in helpers for something like a “label” Entity or similar (as the Entity-Card only accepts Entities) but didn’t find really useful helpers.

Is there any trick / possibility to define a Label Entity (or similar) in order to expose HTML formatted / or even unformatted text as an Entity inside an Entity-Card ?

In my dumb opinion such basic possibility should be always be present but probably this is due to my too little knowledge of HA.

PS: No HACS.

Thanks a lot in advance and my compliment for such a nice framework.

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Hello redskate,

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Hi sir_goodenough, Thank you!
It seems that the docs be not uptodate with the latest HA version but still no way to add a label as Entity inside an Entity Card! I mean: saparated / independent from that entity.

This is useful in all those cases where you have a stack of statically defined cards and want to add a specification / description for the next n cards or for the next n entities in the Entity-Card.

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If something is out of date, there is a link on the bottom of that page to update it for the community.

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If you are looking for ways to organise the display of entities on your dashboard, then the core Entities card also allows you to add dividers and sections.

However, if you want longer chunks of text on your dashboards, which you can format in different ways, then the core Markdown card might be useful for you.

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Thank you very much, reste_narquois!

Nice advice. Mark-down cards are very useful to comment. I learn it today.
In a Markdown-Card one can only put text, no entities.
However I searched for a way to interlace comments and entities in a core-Entity-Card. Maybe I should use a (fake) sensor here which shows up as Entity.

Dividers in an Entity-Card (a hair-line intended) would be very useful but in my docker installation (Package home-assistant · GitHub) they do NOT exist (and hence they do not serve).

So (currently) the only HACS-free solution would consist to reduce the (use of) the nice Entity-Cards up to the necessity to comment/divide some vertically ordered entities, then again Entity-Cards, etc.

It would be very nice to be able to interlace (functioning) dividers, commenters and entities in an Entity-Card.

This said, I continue with the above (chunked) solution for the moment :slight_smile:

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Thank you for the orthogonality Sir_Good_enough, I invite whoever did the last changes (thanks!!) to update this doc page.

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No problem - concerning sections and dividers, just checking that you are not mixing the Entity card up with the Entities card.

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Maybe this is what you are looking for?

However the text length is pretty limited unfortunately.