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The textarea form field type provides a dropdown list of h1 to h6 as options.

• type (mandatory) must be textarea.
• name (mandatory) is the unique name of the field.
• label (mandatory) (translatable) is the field html label.
• rows (mandatory) is the height of the visible text area in lines. If omitted the height is determined by the browser. The value of rows does not limit the number of lines that may be entered.
• cols (mandatory) is the width of the visible text area in characters. If omitted the width is determined by the browser. The value of cols does not limit the number of characters that may be entered.
• description (optional) (translatable) is the field description.
• default (optional) (not translatable) is the default value.
• class (optional) is a CSS class name for the HTML form field. If omitted this will default to 'text_area'.
• filter (optional) is the filter to apply.
• hint (optional) The text displayed in the html placeholder element, usually a lighter coloured hint displayed inside an blank field.

Implemented by: libraries/src/Form/Field/TextareaField.php

Example XML parameter definition¶

<field
        name="mytextarea" 
        type="textarea" 
        default="default" 
        label="Enter some text" 
        description="" 
        rows="10" 
        cols="5"
/>

Use the raw filter to ensure that html code is preserved when the form is processed:

<field
        name="mytextarea" 
        type="textarea" 
        default="default" 
        label="Enter some text" 
        description="" 
        rows="10" 
        cols="5"
        filter="raw"
/>

Tips¶

If you need to line break just encode <br /> in the XML config file like this: <br />
If you need a new line character in your default value, add 
 to the default parameter.

See also¶

• Text form field type