🎨 Rich Text (MiniMessage)

On this page, you will learn where you can use MiniMessage formatting in Phoenix Shop.

#Information

Phoenix Shop understands MiniMessage tags, like <red>, <bold> or <gradient:#ff5555:#5555ff>, on top of the classic & colour codes and &#RRGGBB hex colours.

#Format

Example	Result
`&aHello`	Green text
`&#ff8800Hello`	Any hex colour
`<#ff8800>Hello`	Any hex colour, MiniMessage style
`<gradient:#FF9A00:#E52D27>Phoenix Shop</gradient>`	Text fading from one colour to another
`<bold><underlined>Warning`	Bold and underlined
`<rainbow>Rare!</rainbow>`	Each letter a different colour

A closing tag is optional. <red>Hello colours the rest of the line, while <red>Hello</red> there colours only the first word.

#Where it works

Place	Notes
Shop and category names	The shop's display name and the category's title
Item names and lore	Including purchase items
Menu titles, item names and lore	Everything in the `menus` files
Sign shops	The lines of chest shops and server-owned sign shops
Message, title and action bar actions ⭐	Actions run by requirements and categories

In these places & codes and tags can be mixed freely in the same line.

#Where it doesn't work

Messages in the translation file, such as the bought and sold messages, only understand & codes and &#RRGGBB hex. A tag in one of them is shown to the player exactly as you typed it.

Hover text and clickable links are not supported anywhere, since every text is turned into plain coloured text before it is shown.

#Usage notes

A tag the server does not recognise is left in the text as written rather than being dropped, which is what keeps resource pack glyph tags working.
Bedrock forms drop hex colours and gradients, and keep the standard & colours.

MiniMessage needs Paper or a fork of it. On plain Spigot the tags are printed exactly as you typed them, so stay on & codes there.

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