UI text not showing in my scrollView

I have a scrollview, that i am trying to display a piece of text inside. When the following code i get an object with a text component. It has the content as parent, but it doesnt appear when i run the program. Any help would be appriciated

code:

         newGO = new GameObject("myTextGO");
         newGO.transform.SetParent(this.transform);
 
         Text myText = newGO.AddComponent<Text>();
         myText.text = "Ta-dah!";