Textarea Element Element
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1 Textarea Element - #textarea {}
The textarea element produces an HTML textarea.
Usage
#textarea { text="Some text" }
Attributes
- text - (string)
- Set the textarea's contents.
- rows - (integer)
- Set the number of rows in the textarea.
- columns - (integer)
- Set the number of columns in the textarea.
- html_encode - (boolean)
- Set to true to safely html-encode the text.
- disabled - (boolean)
- Set to true to disable this element in the
browser (sets the HTML
disabled
property, effectly greying out the element). Can be dynamically re-enabled withwf:enable(ElementID)
orwf:wire(ElementID, #enable{})
(Default:false
) - readonly - (boolean)
- Set to true to make this element readonly in the
browser. Can be toggled with
wf:wire(ElementID, #make_writable{})
andwf:wire(ElementID, #make_readonly{})
. - placeholder - (string)
- Sets the placeholder text (text that will be
in the textarea until the user focuses in the textarea). This uses the
HTML5 placeholder attribute, which is only supported in newer browsers.
To add support for older-browsers, you will need to link a placeholder
script in your template. You can do this by adding the following to your
template inside the
<head>
section after loading jQuery.
<script src='/nitrogen/jquery.placeholder.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
- html_name - (string)
- The name attribute of the textarea.