Overhead Notification

Overhead Text Action

The Overhead Text action displays text above your player character for a configurable duration.

📷 Screenshot needed: The Overhead Text action panel showing the message field, display time spinner, and text color picker

📷 Screenshot needed: In-game example of overhead text displayed above a player character

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Requirements

You must have your Public chat turned on or you will not see the overhead text.

Fields

Message

The text to display. Supports capture group substitution with $1, $2, etc.

Display Time (seconds)

How long the text stays visible before disappearing. Set to 0 to use the game's default overhead text duration.

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Coloring Overhead Text

You can color all or part of the overhead text using RuneLite color tags directly in the Message field:

<col=0066cc>Blue text</col>
<col=ff0000>Red text</col>

The format is <col=RRGGBB>text</col> where RRGGBB is a hex color code. You can use multiple color tags in a single message to color different words differently.

Example:

<col=00ff00>Farming</col> patch is ready!

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Notes

• Unlike the Game Message action, this does not write anything to the chat box.