Textbox
Textbox
Employment/Purpose
A textbox is used to let users input text data.
You colud assign value, type, constraint, rows, cols to a textbox by the corresponding properties. When you assigns the property type to a string value 「password」 when multiline is false( multiline will be true if You set rows large then 1 or sets multiline to true directly) then any character in this component will replace by '*'.
You colud also assign a constraint value with a regular expression string or a default constraint expression(available value is 「no empty」). When user change the value of textbox, will cause a validating preocess to valdate the value. If valdation fail, then a notification will poped up.
Example
<textbox value="text..." />
<textbox value="secret" type="password" />
<textbox constraint="/.+@.+\.[a-z]+/: Please enter an e-mail address" />
<textbox rows="5" cols="40">
<attribute name="value">
text line1...
text line2...
</attribute>
</textbox>
To specify multilines value, you can use the attribute element or 
as shown below
<textbox rows="5" cols="40">
<attribute name="value">
text line1...
text line2...
</attribute>
</textbox>
<textbox value="Line 1
Line 2" rows="3"/>
Properties
Tabbable
By specifying a true, the tabbox can insert a long space or format the content inside textbox conveniently. For example,
<textbox tabbable="true"/>
Type
The type attribute can be used with the textbox based components and can be given the value password. By setting the type as password the text that is entered into the box cannot be viewed and is replaced by stars.
Username: <textbox/>
Password: <textbox type="password"/>
Inherited Functions
Please refer to InputElement for inherited functions.
Supported Events
None | None |
- Inherited Supported Events: InputElement
Supported Children
*NONE
Use Cases
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Browser Limitations
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IE |
<textbox value="color" style="color:red !important;" disabled="true"/>
There is no way to change the text color in a disabled input in IE. |
Version History
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