---
title: st.text_input
slug: /develop/api-reference/widgets/st.text_input
description: st.text_input displays a single-line text input widget.
---

<Autofunction function="streamlit.text_input" />

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Text input widgets can customize how to hide their labels with the `label_visibility` parameter. If "hidden", the label doesn’t show but there is still empty space for it above the widget (equivalent to `label=""`). If "collapsed", both the label and the space are removed. Default is "visible". Text input widgets can also be disabled with the `disabled` parameter, and can display an optional placeholder text when the text input is empty using the `placeholder` parameter:

```python
import streamlit as st

# Store the initial value of widgets in session state
if "visibility" not in st.session_state:
    st.session_state.visibility = "visible"
    st.session_state.disabled = False

col1, col2 = st.columns(2)

with col1:
    st.checkbox("Disable text input widget", key="disabled")
    st.radio(
        "Set text input label visibility 👉",
        key="visibility",
        options=["visible", "hidden", "collapsed"],
    )
    st.text_input(
        "Placeholder for the other text input widget",
        "This is a placeholder",
        key="placeholder",
    )

with col2:
    text_input = st.text_input(
        "Enter some text 👇",
        label_visibility=st.session_state.visibility,
        disabled=st.session_state.disabled,
        placeholder=st.session_state.placeholder,
    )

    if text_input:
        st.write("You entered: ", text_input)
```

<Cloud src="https://doc-text-input1.streamlit.app/?embed=true" height="400" />