Text form field type/3.2
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< Text form field type
The page is in development and is not included in the master yet - It will probably be included in Joomla 3.2 but may change in usage between now and then. Use it at your own risk!
Description[edit]
The text form field type provides a text box for data entry. If the field has a value saved, this value is displayed when the page is first loaded. If not, the default value (if any) is selected.
Attributes[edit]
attribute | presence | type | description | example |
---|---|---|---|---|
type | mandatory | string | Type of field - must be text | "text" |
name | mandatory | string | is the unique name of the field. | "myName" |
label | mandatory | string | (translatable) is the descriptive title of the field. | "Text Field" |
size | optional | number | is the width of the text box in characters. If omitted the width is determined by the browser. The value of size does not limit the number of characters that may be entered. | "20" |
maxlength | optional | number | limits the number of characters that may be entered. | "25" |
default | optional | string | (not translatable) is the default value. | "Default value" |
description | optional | string | (translatable) is text that will be shown as a tooltip when the user moves the mouse over the drop-down box. | "This is a text field" |
hint | optional | string | (translatable) is text that will be shown as a placeholder. | "Placeholder text" |
class | optional | string | is a space separated CSS class name list for the HTML form field. | "foo bar barfoo" |
readonly | optional | boolean | The field cannot be changed and will automatically inherit the default value. | "true" "1" "readonly" |
disabled | optional | boolean | The field cannot be changed and will automatically inherit the default value. It will also not submit | "true" "1" "disabled" |
required | optional | boolean | The field must be filled before submitting the form. | "true" "1" "required" |
filter | optional | enum | allow the system to save certain html tags or raw data. | "integer" |
autocomplete | optional | boolean | allow the user agent to prefilling the value based on earlier user input. | "false" "0" "off" |
autofocus | optional | boolean | The field get focused automatically on page load. | "true" "1" "on" |
spellcheck | optional | boolean | allow the user agent to disable spellcheck. | "false" "0" "off" |
inputmode | optional | string | kind of input mechanism for users entering content into the field. | "default numeric" |
Options[edit]
The XML <field>
element may include one or more <option>
elements which define the datalist items. The text between the <option>
and </option>
tags is what will be shown in the suggestion list and is a translatable string. The <option>
tag takes the following argument:
Examples[edit]
- Setting text field maxlength
- Setting text field default value
- Setting a description
<field name="mytextvalue" type="text" label="Enter some text" description="Some info about the field" />
- Setting a hint(placeholder)
- Setting class list
<field name="mytextvalue" type="text" label="Enter some text" class="foo bar" />
- Making field readonly
- Making field disabled
- Making field required
- Setting a filter for field
- Use the integer filter to ensure that letters types get stripped when the form is processed.
<field name="myintvalue" type="text" default="8" label="Enter some text" description="Enter some description" filter="integer" />
- Use the raw filter to ensure that html code is preserved when the form is processed.
<field name="myhtmlvalue" type="text" default="" label="Enter some text" description="Enter some description" filter="raw" />
- Setting text field autocomplete false
<field name="mytextvalue" type="text" label="Enter some text" autocomplete="false" />
- Setting text field autofocus
<field name="mytextvalue" type="text" label="Enter some text" autofocus="true" />
- Setting text field spellcheck off
- Setting text field inputmode
<field name="mytextvalue" type="text" label="Enter some text" inputmode="default" />