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Table of Contents
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Description

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A text area is a multi-line text input control. 

Used when the expected user input is long. 

Usage & Behavior

General guidelines


Structure

The text area consists of:

  • Label -

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  • meaningful label of what information the user needs to provide

  • Input Field (the input field can display a hint text).


States

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Interaction

  • Hover - hovering the text area will change the cursor to text cursor.

  • Focus -

    • focusing the text area will place the cursor at the focus position and the hint text will disappear

    • Double clicking a word inside the

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    • text area will select that word.

    • Triple clicking the text area will select the whole text in the text area, if exists.

  • Focus out - If no text was inserted, the hint text will be displayed again when the field will lose focus.

If a character limit was set, reaching the limit will prevent the user from keeping typing. 

Text areas have a fixed height. A vertical scroll is added when the cursor reaches the bottom of the field.



Validations and errors

Please refer to Field validation page for more information.

A text area with a warning will have an orange border and a warning icon, as displayed below: 

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A text area with an error will have a red border and an error icon, as displayed below:

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The orange/red border will be removed when the content is updated to a valid.


Best practices

  • For short input, use the text field component.

  • Always provide a clear and meaningful label for any input field.

  • Where appropriate, help users by providing hint texts which describes the expected value of the field.

  • Text areas should indicate their state - enabled/disabled, empty/filled, valid/invalid.

  • Provide an indicator when the field is required.

Accessibility compliance

<<In general each component should be A11y complied,  please follow the 3 guidelines linked below. At the very least we should document that each component is in compliance with each of the 3>>

Design


Zeplin link

Screen thumbnail

https://zpl.io/2v4yY7a

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Current appearances in our

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			<div class="card-body">
				<form>
					<div class="form-group row">
						<label for="inputKey" class="col-lg-2 col-form-label col-form-label-sm">Regular</label>
						<div class="col-lg-4">
							<textarea class="form-control form-control-sm" placeholder="Guiding Text"></textarea>
						</div>
						<div class="col-lg-6">
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						<div class="col-lg-6">
							<pre class="language-html"><code><script type="prism-html-markup"><textarea class="form-control form-control-sm" placeholder="Guiding Text">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, id vis ubique cotidieque, ex malis commune mea. Stet explicari in ius, eu sanctus intellegat mea. Mazim atomorum his te, idque nihil percipit an cum.</textarea></script></code></pre>
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					<div class="form-group row">
						<label for="inputKey" class="col-lg-2 col-form-label col-form-label-sm">Disabled</label>
						<div class="col-lg-4">
							<textarea class="form-control form-control-sm" placeholder="Guiding Text" disabled></textarea>
						</div>
						<div class="col-lg-6">
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							<textarea class="form-control form-control-sm" placeholder="Guiding Text" disabled>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, id vis ubique cotidieque, ex malis commune mea. Stet explicari in ius, eu sanctus intellegat mea. Mazim atomorum his te, idque nihil percipit an cum.</textarea>
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						<div class="col-lg-6">
							<pre class="language-html"><code><script type="prism-html-markup"><textarea class="form-control form-control-sm" placeholder="Guiding Text" disabled>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, id vis ubique cotidieque, ex malis commune mea. Stet explicari in ius, eu sanctus intellegat mea. Mazim atomorum his te, idque nihil percipit an cum.</textarea></script></code></pre>
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					<div class="form-group row">
						<label for="inputKey" class="col-lg-2 col-form-label col-form-label-sm">Read-Only</label>
						<div class="col-lg-4">
							<textarea class="form-control form-control-sm" placeholder="Guiding Text" readonly></textarea>
						</div>
						<div class="col-lg-6">
							<pre class="language-html"><code><script type="prism-html-markup"><textarea class="form-control form-control-sm" placeholder="Guiding Text" readonly></textarea></script></code></pre>
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					<div class="form-group row">
						<label for="inputKey" class="col-lg-2 col-form-label col-form-label-sm"></label>
						<div class="col-lg-4">
							<textarea class="form-control form-control-sm" placeholder="Guiding Text" readonly>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, id vis ubique cotidieque, ex malis commune mea. Stet explicari in ius, eu sanctus intellegat mea. Mazim atomorum his te, idque nihil percipit an cum.</textarea>
						</div>
						<div class="col-lg-6">
							<pre class="language-html"><code><script type="prism-html-markup"><textarea class="form-control form-control-sm" placeholder="Guiding Text" readonly>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, id vis ubique cotidieque, ex malis commune mea. Stet explicari in ius, eu sanctus intellegat mea. Mazim atomorum his te, idque nihil percipit an cum.</textarea></script></code></pre>
						</div>
					</div>
					<div class="form-group row">
						<label for="inputKey" class="col-lg-2 col-form-label col-form-label-sm">Error</label>
						<div class="col-lg-4">
							<textarea class="form-control form-control-sm is-invalid" placeholder="Guiding Text" value="Filled Text" data-toggle="tooltip" data-custom-class="input-error" data-placement="right" title="There is an Error on the Text Area"></textarea>
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						<div class="col-lg-6">
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				</form>
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