TextArea

TextArea is a multi-line text editor field.

Component’s XML-name: textArea.

Basics

TextArea mostly replicates the functionality of the TextField component.

An example of the TextArea:

<textArea id="textArea"
          rows="7"
          caption="Text area with 7 rows"/>

text area

Attributes

TextArea has the following specific attributes:

rows - set the number of rows of text. The value of height has priority over the value of rows.
wordWrap - set this attribute to false to turn off word wrapping.

Listeners

TextChangeListener and ValueChangeListener work in the same way as in the TextField.

Styles

Styling is identical to TextField component.

All XML Attributes

align - buffered - caption - captionAsHtml - caseConversion - colspan - contextHelpText - contextHelpTextHtmlEnabled - conversionErrorMessage - css - dataContainer - datatype - description - descriptionAsHtml - editable - enable - box.expandRatio - height - htmlSanitizerEnabled - icon - id - inputPrompt - maxLength - property - required - requiredMessage - responsive - rows - rowspan - stylename - tabIndex - textChangeEventMode - textChangeTimeout - trim - visible - width - wordWrap