Feature Proposals » EDITFORMFIELD variable with textarea support

Motivation

The type="" parameter is designed for HTML input tags. A textarea is related, but not an input tag, hence not part of the current spec. The EDITFORMFIELD can be enhanced to support type="textarea". This came up in Support.SID-02240.

Description and Documentation

• "fieldname" type="textarea" value="..." size="80x6" - multi line text area field, size denotes columns x rows.

Examples

Impact

Implementation

Patch:

--- TWiki/Render.pm   (revision 30200)
+++ TWiki/Render.pm   (working copy)
@@ -1525,6 +1525,28 @@
         my $html = '</form>';
         return $html;
 
+    } elsif( $type =~ /^textarea$/ ) {
+        # special case, construct <textara></textarea> tags
+        my $html = "<textarea name=\"$formField\"";
+        my $needsClass = 1;
+        my $class = 'twikiTextarea';
+        foreach my $key ( keys %$params ) {
+            next if( $key =~ /^(_DEFAULT|_RAW|name|size|type|text|value)$/i );
+            $needsClass = 0 if( $key =~ /^class$/i );
+            $html .= " $key=\"" . $params->{$key} . '"';
+        }
+        my $size = $params->{size} || '';
+        if( $size =~ /^([0-9]+)x([0-9]+)$/ ) {
+            $html .= " cols=\"$1\" rows=\"$2\"";
+        } elsif( $size =~ /^([0-9]+)$/ ) {
+            $html .= " cols=\"$1\" rows=\"6\"";
+        }
+        if( $needsClass ) {
+            $html .= ' class="twikiTextarea"';
+        }
+        $html .= '>' . $value . '</textarea>';
+        return $html;
+
     } elsif( $type ) {
         # special case, construct an <input type="" /> tag
         my $html = "<input name=\"$formField\" type=\"$type\"";

-- Contributors: Peter Thoeny - 2016-08-14

Discussion

Accepted by KampalaReleaseMeeting2016x08x18

-- Peter Thoeny - 2016-08-18

This is now in SVN trunk and 6.0 branch. Docs updated at TWiki.VarEDITFORMFIELD and TWiki06x00.VarEDITFORMFIELD.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2016-08-31