Adding text and markdown to dashboards

Text and Markdown elements in Looker dashboards are used to add descriptive text, headings, and other formatting to your dashboards.

Text elements provide a simple way to add text to your dashboard. You can use text elements to add titles, subtitles, labels, and other descriptive text.

Markdown elements allow you to use Markdown formatting to add text, headings, links, images, and other content to your dashboard.

Getting ready

We’ll continue working in our Ecommerce Dashboard where we created a visualization in the previous section.

How to do it...

To add text and markdown elements to your dashboard, you need to do the following:

1. Let’s start with adding a text element to your dashboard:
   1. In the top-left corner of Ecommerce Dashboard, click on Add -> then choose Text.
   2. The text at the top will be the heading. Add the following there: This is an Ecommerce website dashboard.
   3. Below the heading, add any description...