Text > Area

Overview

A text area for short or long description.

You can limit the characters (let empty or 0 for no limitation) and set a default value.

You can activate the WYSIWYG option.

To create a text field, start by choosing the input type “text > Area” (see settings).

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Settings

• Title : Label of the field

• Identifier : Unique ID, used for template redefinition and custom script. By default, the identifier is set by a concatenation of the Custom Type identifier (eg “all_fields”) and Title (eg. “area”).

• Input type : current definition of the field type. Note that after saving, you’ll be unable to change it.

• Required : define if the field is mandatory or not when user will complete the content form.

• Show in Grid : define if the field will be available to be showed in the content listing (under CMS → Your content type name). Take care because all value will be showed.

• Note : A note which will be displayed under the field to help the webmaster, or give information about this field.

Special settings :

• Max Characters : let you put a limit on the number of characters.

• Default Value : Set a default value for this field when creating a new content.

• Wysiwyg: if yes, let the user activate the wysiwyg editor to edit his content.