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# Properties & Placeholders

{% hint style="info" %}
All object properties have default values, so you should only declare properties if you want to change the values from the defaults.
{% endhint %}

**PlaceholderAPI** can be used in all object properties. Board objects will update automatically after a placeholder changes.

Object properties can have a different value when hovered, see [Click and Hover](/docs/objects/general-information/click-and-hover.md)

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Properties can be declared in a more complex way, when additional control is needed.

```yaml
example-text:
  type: text
  
  position: 0 0
  outline-color: black
  
  ## 1) this is the regular way of declaring a property, in this case text
  text: '&4Example text'
  
  ## 2) this is the complex way of declaring properties,
  ## this gives you more control of how the placeholders are parsed
  text:
    ## Enabling this removes color codes
    remove-color-codes: false
    ## Enabling this replaces \n with new line symbol
    replace-new-line: true
    ## the value of the property, same as 1) example
    value: '&4 Example text'
```


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