dijit.form.Textarea¶
| Authors: | Doug Hays, Bill Keese, Nikolai Onken |
|---|---|
| Developers: | Doug Hays, Bill Keese |
| Available: | since V1.0 |
A Textarea widget is like a regular HTML TEXTAREA element, but it dynamically resizes to fit the content of the text inside. It takes nearly all the parameters (name, value, etc.) that a vanilla TEXTAREA takes. The attribute rows is not supported since this widget adjusts the height. It is especially useful in an InlineEditBox. Note that when declaring a Textarea in markup you should use a <textarea> node to preserve the newline formatting.
Examples¶
Programmatic example¶
First we will create a Textarea widget programatically. Notice how we pass the name, style and value parameters into the object creation.
<script type="text/javascript">
dojo.require("dijit.form.Textarea");
dojo.addOnLoad(function(){
var textarea = new dijit.form.Textarea({
name: "myarea",
value: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat.",
style: "width:200px;"
},"myarea");
});
</script>
<textarea id="myarea"></textarea>
Declarative example¶
Here we’ll create a Textarea widget declaratively. In this instance, the initial value is the child text node of the TEXTAREA element.
<script type="text/javascript">
dojo.require("dijit.form.Textarea");
</script>
<textarea id="textarea2" name="textarea2" dojoType="dijit.form.Textarea" style="width:200px;">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat.</textarea>
Accessibility¶
Keyboard¶
The Textarea widget uses native HTML TEXTAREA controls.
Known Issues (1.2 and before)¶
- On Firefox 2, the user must press the Tab key twice before keyboard focus moves to the next widget. (There is no problem when using Shift+Tab.)
- The attribute “cols” was not supported, but the CSS style width could be used instead.