A TextAreaTag references a DataField in the context hierarchy and creates an HTML TextArea element containing the field's value.
Mandatory attributes: dataName
Attribute | Description | Default value |
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dataName | Name of the DataField in the context hierarchy. If the DataField is read only, in Internet Explorer the text area is also read only. If a form containing a text area is submitted, the context's element named dataName is set with the text area's value. | |
cols | Number of columns in the text area | null |
rows | Number of rows in the text area | null |
wrap | Whether the text area wraps the text | null |
error | Whether the text area contains an invalid value | no |
errorStyle | Style for invalid text | font-style:italic; color:orangered |
style | Style for the text area | null |
custom | Adds attributes to the input element. The following is the format of this attribute: custom="att1Name=\"att1Value\ "att2Name=\"att2Value\"..." | null |
The following is an example of using TextAreaTag:
<H1>Using the TextArea Tag</H1> <dse:form name="f1" nextEventName="ok"> <table border="1"> <tr><td colspan="2"> <dse:textArea dataName="poem1" cols="35" rows="5"/></td><td> <dse:textArea dataName="poem2" cols="20" rows="5" wrap="hard"/></td></tr> <tr><td> <dse:textArea dataName="poem3" cols="20" rows="5" wrap="off"/></td><td> <dse:textArea dataName="readOnlyPoem" cols="20" rows="5" wrap="off"/></td><td> <dse:textArea dataName="inErrorField" cols="20" rows="5" error="yes"/> </td></tr></table> <dse:button type="submit"/><br> </dse:form>