Magento 2: How to add text within container via XML

Question

I am attempting to render a single line of text prior to a Link list in the footer. Creating a template file to do this seems to be a waste of resources for this task. As I understood it, I could output text with a Magento\Framework\View\Element\Text block in the layout.

XML

<referenceContainer name="footer">
 <container name="footer.column.about_us" htmlTag="div" htmlClass="column about-us" before="-">
 <container name="column.about_us.label" htmlTag="div" htmlClass="label">
 <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Text" name="about_us.label">
 <arguments>
 <argument name="data" xsi:type="array">
 <item name="text" xsi:type="string">About Us</item>
 </argument>
 </arguments>
 </block>
 </container>
 <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Html\Links" name="footer_links.about_us">
 <arguments>
 <argument name="css_class" xsi:type="string">footer links</argument>
 </arguments>
 </block>
 </container>
</referenceContainer>

The preceding does not output anything, and I am unsure whether this is unsupported, if I'm just doing it wrong, or if there is another more proper method to accomplish this.

To be clear, what I'm currently seeing is:

<div class="column about-us">
 <ul class="footer links">...</ul>
</div>

when I want to see:

<div class="column about-us">
 <div class="label">About Us</div>
 <ul class="footer links">...</ul>
</div>

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You need to use the argument directly without the array.

Instead of

 <arguments>
 <argument name="data" xsi:type="array">
 <item name="text" xsi:type="string">About Us</item>
 </argument>
 </arguments>

You need:

 <arguments>
 <argument translate="true" name="text" xsi:type="string">About Us</argument>
 </arguments>

Alternative

You can also try with the <action> tag:

<action method="setText">
 <argument translate="true" name="text" xsi:type="string">About Us</argument>
</action>

Adding a div directly

You can also add a div directly in the text with the following:

<argument translate="true" name="text" xsi:type="string"><![CDATA[<div class="label">About Us</div>]]></argument>

• Devtype: How would you add an argument inside an existing block e.g. product.info.review block can it be referenced and added with another argument of type string?
• Raphael at Digital Pianism: @Devtype totally. You can use <referenceBlock name="product.info.review"> to do so
• Devtype: @RaphaelatDigitalPianism referencing a block doesn't work for me, on the other hand referencing a container does work. Am I missing something!!
• Raphael at Digital Pianism: @Devtype no that should work for both blocks and containers. Feel free to create a new question and describe your problem in details ;)
• Devtype: @RaphaelatDigitalPianism magento.stackexchange.com/questions/141891/…