# Text and Lists

> Insert and edit text boxes, paragraph blocks, and semantic PDF lists.

- Human documentation: [https://docs.univer.ai/guides/pdfs/features/core/text-and-lists](https://docs.univer.ai/guides/pdfs/features/core/text-and-lists)

- Agent Markdown: [https://docs.univer.ai/guides/pdfs/features/core/text-and-lists.md](https://docs.univer.ai/guides/pdfs/features/core/text-and-lists.md)

- Requested language: `en-US`

- Content language: `en-US`

- Documentation version: `1.0.0-rc.0`

- Source: [pdfs/features/core/text-and-lists.mdx](https://github.com/dream-num/documentation/blob/dev/content/guides/pdfs/features/core/text-and-lists.mdx)

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PDF text can be a simple editable text box, a story-backed paragraph frame, or a semantic list.

## Text boxes

```ts
const textBox = page.insertTextBox({
  text: 'Quarterly review',
  left: 36,
  top: 36,
  width: 280,
  height: 48,
  fontSize: 20,
})

textBox.setTextStyle({ bold: true, fill: '#1d4ed8' })
textBox.setTextStyle({ italic: true }, { start: 0, end: 9 })
```

`setTextStyle(style, range?)` applies a style to the whole box or to a UTF-16 range whose start is inclusive and end is exclusive.

## Paragraphs

Paragraph blocks have stable IDs. Read them with `getBlocks()` before updating text, style, or order.

```ts
const paragraph = page.insertParagraph({
  text: 'Release summary',
  left: 36,
  top: 108,
  width: 280,
  height: 96,
})

paragraph.appendBlock({
  text: 'Approved for publication',
  textStyle: { italic: true },
})

const [block] = paragraph.getBlocks()

if (block) {
  paragraph.setBlockStyle(block.id, { align: 'center' })
}
```

## Semantic lists

```ts
const list = page.insertList({
  text: 'Verify content',
  kind: univerAPI.Enum.PdfListKind.ORDERED,
  preset: univerAPI.Enum.PdfListPresetId.ORDERED_NUMBER_ALPHA,
  left: 36,
  top: 228,
  width: 280,
  height: 120,
})

list.insertItem(1, { text: 'Export final PDF' })
list.insertItem(2, { text: 'Archive source', level: 1 })
list.setStartNumber(3)
```

List levels range from `0` through `8`. Increasing a level requires a preceding item that can serve as its parent; `setStartNumber()` is available only for ordered lists.

Text boxes also expose `getTextRuns()`, `getTextAnchor()`, and `setTextAnchor()`. Paragraphs expose `insertBlock()`, `appendBlock()`, `setBlockText()`, `setBlockStyle()`, and `removeBlock()`.