Form field: text area

Modified on Mon, 22 Apr at 12:03 PM

The icon for elements of type Text area.

Functionality

Form elements of type textarea add a multi-line text area to the current form, allowing the user to enter multiple lines of text. The properties panel label allows you to add a descriptive label to the checkbox.

Properties

Overview of the standard properties

This section describes only those properties that are different from the standard.

Style

The basic properties panel of the FORMCYCLE Designerlets you change the height of a text area. Use this to control how many lines of text the user can see at once.

Name	Description
Height (in px)	The height of the text area in pixels.
Auto resize	Dynamically adjusts the height of the element to the entered content.
Show character count	Displays the current number of characters entered. 8.1.0+ In the i18n variables, the text can be adapted to the number of characters using the lettersLeft key if the text area has a character limit and lettersLeftUnrestrictedif there is no limit. The following placeholders can be used to display the dynamic values of the text field: %length - the current number of characters in the text area %maxlength - maximum number of characters for the text area %remaining - remaining number of characters for the text area (max. number - current number)

Name

Description

Height (in px)

The height of the text area in pixels.

Auto resize

Dynamically adjusts the height of the element to the entered content.

Show character count

Displays the current number of characters entered.

8.1.0+ In the i18n variables, the text can be adapted to the number of characters using the lettersLeft key if the text area has a character limit and lettersLeftUnrestrictedif there is no limit. The following placeholders can be used to display the dynamic values of the text field:

%length - the current number of characters in the text area
%maxlength - maximum number of characters for the text area
%remaining - remaining number of characters for the text area (max. number - current number)

constraints

The constraints properties panel of the FORMCYCLE Designer lets you select a data type and other constraints, such as whether the text area can be left empty.

Name	Description
Datatype	How to check whether the entered text is valid. For example, you can use this to check for invalid email addresses. See also the built-in validators.
Length min	The minimum number of allowed characters.
Length max	The maximum number of allowed characters.
Value min	Only available for numeric datatypes: the smallest allowed number.
Value max	Only available for numeric datatypes: the largest allowed number.
Must equal	If set: The value of this input field must be equal to the value of the field that is selected here.