XForms Textarea Element

Introduction

Serves to show/change multiline text (see the spec).

Attributes

• UI Common
  • appearance - isn't supported.
  • accesskey - used to specify the keyboard shortcut for focusing this control.
• Single-Node Binding
• Special
  • inputmode - isn't supported.
  • incremental - supported. The default value is false.

Type restrictions

The textarea element can be bound to a node of type xsd:string or any type derived from it.

Representations

The XForms textarea element is represented by a multiline text field (xhtml/xul).

Characteristics

• analogous widgets are <xhtml:textarea/> and <xul:textbox multiline="true"/>
• if the incremental attribute has the value true, then the bound instance node is updated on every user input.