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The text area consists of:

• Label - a 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.

• Active -

  • Clicking the text area will place the cursor at the cursor position and the hint text will disappear. 

  • Double clicking a word inside the text area will select that word.

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

• Non active - 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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• 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

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