Should Static render Text with markup?

[saltzadam]

Hello and cheers on a very cool project!

I am trying to render some Rich text with markup in a Textual App (CSS branch). I expected that Static(Text.from_markup("[magenta]a[/]")) would render a magenta "a". Instead, it renders a normal "a". This is weird to me: if Text isn't supported in Static, then I would expect to see "[magenta]a[/]", i.e. the escaped Text. Is this intended behavior?

Also, markup like [bold] does work, and [bold magenta] will bold the text without changing the color.

Below is an example, including the simplest "solution" I could find. Just for clarity, I would expect to see:

• bold and magenta "a"
• bold and magenta "a"
• magenta "a"
• plain old "a"

but instead see:

Thanks for any help!

from textual.app import App
from textual.widgets import Static
from rich.text import Text
from rich.console import Console, ConsoleOptions, RenderResult

class RichText:
    def __init__(self,markup):
        self.markup = markup

    def __rich_console__(
        self, console: Console, options: ConsoleOptions
    ) -> RenderResult:
        preamble = Text.from_markup(self.markup)
        lines = console.render_lines(preamble)

        for line in lines:
            yield from line

class MWEApp(App):
    def compose(self):
        yield Static(RichText('[bold magenta]a[/]'))
        yield Static(Text.from_markup('[bold magenta]a[/]'))
        yield Static(Text.from_markup('[magenta]a[/]'))
        yield Static('a')
   
app = MWEApp()

[saltzadam]

My RichText will only render one line. Better to use the Align renderable:

def render_markup(marked_up_text, horizontal='left', vertical='top'):
    lines = marked_up_text.split('\n')
    n_lines = len(lines)
    max_line_size = max([len(line) for line in lines])
    size = Size(width = max_line_size, height = n_lines)

    return Align(marked_up_text, size=size, style=marked_up_text.style, horizontal=horizontal, vertical=vertical)