Text Box Creation Before making a text box materialize, you must understand what a text box is. HTML knows it as an input tag as shown in the following example: ...

Tall hamburger with a hand reaching for it. The introduction to the article, surrounded by a collection of examples of alt text, displayed over blank boxes, arranged in a scattered formation ...

This example puts a 5-pixel margin outside and inside the edge of the box, makes the text red and a little larger, and gives the box a light yellow background. Click "Update File" when done.

For example, using a text box or shape in Google Docs can allow you to have certain information stand out amongst other document contents.

Whether you want to make text stand out, add some structure, or create a unique visual, we’ll show you a few ways to insert a text box in Google Docs.