diff --git a/.changeset/rude-humans-marry.md b/.changeset/rude-humans-marry.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f36db03bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/rude-humans-marry.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'slate-react': patch
+---
+
+Fix text not rendered on ssr
diff --git a/packages/slate-react/src/components/string.tsx b/packages/slate-react/src/components/string.tsx
index b77b14672..7bd09c988 100644
--- a/packages/slate-react/src/components/string.tsx
+++ b/packages/slate-react/src/components/string.tsx
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ const TextString = (props: { text: string; isTrailing?: boolean }) => {
 
   const ref = useRef<HTMLSpanElement>(null)
 
+  const getTextContent = () => {
+    return `${text ?? ''}${isTrailing ? '\n' : ''}`
+  }
+
   // This is the actual text rendering boundary where we interface with the DOM
   // The text is not rendered as part of the virtual DOM, as since we handle basic character insertions natively,
   // updating the DOM is not a one way dataflow anymore. What we need here is not reconciliation and diffing
@@ -72,7 +76,7 @@ const TextString = (props: { text: string; isTrailing?: boolean }) => {
   // useLayoutEffect: updating our span before browser paint
   useIsomorphicLayoutEffect(() => {
     // null coalescing text to make sure we're not outputing "null" as a string in the extreme case it is nullish at runtime
-    const textWithTrailing = `${text ?? ''}${isTrailing ? '\n' : ''}`
+    const textWithTrailing = getTextContent()
 
     if (ref.current && ref.current.textContent !== textWithTrailing) {
       ref.current.textContent = textWithTrailing
@@ -82,6 +86,16 @@ const TextString = (props: { text: string; isTrailing?: boolean }) => {
     // as this effectively replaces "specifying the text in the virtual DOM under the <span> below" on each render
   })
 
+  // Render text content immediately if it's the first-time render
+  // Ensure that text content is rendered on server-side rendering
+  if (!ref.current) {
+    return (
+      <span data-slate-string ref={ref}>
+        {getTextContent()}
+      </span>
+    )
+  }
+
   // the span is intentionally same on every render in virtual DOM, actual rendering happens in the layout effect above
   return <span data-slate-string ref={ref} />
 }