Text object

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Defines an object containing some text.

Formatted either as plain_text or using mrkdwn, our proprietary contribution to the much beloved Markdown standard.

Field	Type	Description	Required?
`type`	String	The formatting to use for this text object. Can be one of `plain_text`or `mrkdwn`.	Required
`text`	String	The text for the block. This field accepts any of the standard text formatting markup when `type` is `mrkdwn`. The minimum length is 1 and maximum length is 3000 characters.	Required
`emoji`	Boolean	Indicates whether emojis in a text field should be escaped into the colon emoji format. This field is only usable when `type` is `plain_text`.	Optional
`verbatim`	Boolean	When set to `false` (as is default) URLs will be auto-converted into links, conversation names will be link-ified, and certain mentions will be automatically parsed. When set to `true`, Slack will continue to process all markdown formatting and manual parsing strings, but it won’t modify any plain-text content. For example, channel names will not be hyperlinked. This field is only usable when `type` is `mrkdwn`.

{
    "type": "mrkdwn",
    "text": "A message *with some bold text* and _some italicized text_."
}