htmltextarea

The htmltextarea DSP widget defines the properties of a <textarea> input control in a Dynamic Server Page. This is used to represent a field as a multi-line field containing plain text.

For more information, see Specifying a Widget for a Field or Entity.

Default Logical Widgets

Uniface provides the default logical widget called TextArea, which mapped to this physical widget.

Triggers

trigger detail—executed on double-click when detail=dblclick is set
webtrigger onBlur—executed when widget loses focus.
webtrigger OnChange—executed when user changes value.
webtrigger onSyntaxError —executed in response to the OnChange event in browser.
webtrigger onSyntaxErrorResolved —executed in response to the OnChange event in browser.

Widget Properties

For information on widgets and the types of widget properties, see and Widgets for Dynamic Server Pages and Widget Properties for the Dynamic Server Page.

HTML Properties

This widget supports the following HTML properties:

HTML Properties
Property	Technical Name	W3C Description
Access Key	`html:accesskey`	accesskey
Style Class	`html:class`	class
Columns	`html:cols`	cols
Disable the Widget	`html:disabled`	disabled
Read Only	`html:readonly`	readonly
Rows	`html:rows`	rows
Tab Index	`html:tabindex`	tabindex
Tool Tip Text	`html:title`	title

Uniface Properties

The following properties represent Uniface properties that have no equivalent in HTML or CSS, or which are used when a form is converted to a DSP.

Uniface Properties
Uniface Property	Technical Name
Background Color (BackColor)	backcolor
Syntax Check on Browser (ClientSyntaxCheck)	clientsyntaxcheck
Foreground Color (ForeColor)	forecolor
class:ClassName	`class:ClassName`
RenderingIncrement	renderingincrement

CSS Properties

The following tables described the supported CSS properties that can be used to style the htmltextarea widget and the logical widgets that map to it.

Background Properties

The following properties control the appearance and behavior of background colors and images.

Background Properties
Property	Technical Name	W3C Description
Background Image Scrolls	`style:background-attachment`	background-attachment
Background Color	`style:background-color`	background-color
Background Image URL	`style:background-image`	background-image
Background Image Position	`style:background-position`	background-position
Background Image Title	`style:background-repeat`	background-repeat

Border Properties

The following properties control the appearance and behavior of widget borders.

Border Properties
Property	Technical Name	W3C Description
Border Color	`style:border-color`	border-color
Border Style	`style:border-style`	border-style
Border Width	`style:border-width`	border-width

Box Properties

The following properties control the appearance and behavior of block and inline boxes.

Box Properties
Property	Technical Name	W3C Description
Mouse Pointer	`style:cursor`	cursor
Display Behavior	`style:display`	display
Positioning Scheme	`style:position`	position
Vertical Alignment	`style:vertical-align`	vertical-align
Visibility	`style:visibility`	visibility
Z-index	`style:z-index`	z-index

Layout Properties

The following properties control the field dimensions and offsets.

Layout Properties
Property	Technical Name	W3C Description	Limitations
Bottom Offset	`style:bottom`	bottom	Percentages not supported for CommandButton
Height	`style:height`	height	Percentages not supported under Internet Explorer for CommandButton and TextArea:
Left Offset	`style:left`	left
Margins	`style:margin`	margin	Percentages not supported under Internet Explorer for Picture
Maximum Height	`style:max-height`	max-height	Percentages not supported under Internet Explorer for CommandButton and TextArea:
Maximum Width	`style:max-width`	max-width	Percentages not supported under Internet Explorer for CommandButton
Minimum Height	`style:min-height`	min-height	Percentages not supported under Internet Explorer for CommandButton and TextArea:
Minimum Width	`style:min-width`	min-width	Percentages not supported under Internet Explorer for CommandButton.
Paddings	`style:padding`	padding	This property has no effect on Internet Explorer 6 for the RadioGroup
Right Offset	`style:right`	right
Top Offset	`style:top`	top	Percentages not supported
Width	`style:width`	width	Percentages not supported under Internet Explorer for the CommandButton.

NLS Properties

These properties determine the direction of the text and of embeddings and overrides for the Unicode bidirectional algorithm.

NLS Properties
Property	Technical Name	W3C Description	Limitations
Direction	`style:direction`	direction	DropdownList, DatePicker: `rtl` not supported
Unicode Bidirectional Behavior	`style:Unicode-bidi`	Unicode-bidi

Text Properties

The following properties control the appearance of text in the field or label.

Text Properties
Property	Technical Name	W3C CSS Description	Limitations
Text Color	`style:color`	color
Font Family	`style:font-family`	font-family
Font Size	`style:font-size`	font-size
Font Style	`style:font-style`	font-style
Font Variation	`style:font-variant`	font-variant
Font Weight	`style:font-weight`	font-weight
Letter Spacing	`style:letter-spacing`	letter-spacing
Line Height	`style:line-height`	line-height
Text Alignment	`style:text-align`	text-align	The value justify is not supported for the EditBox, DropdownList, DatePicker, Password widgets.
Text Decoration	`style:text-decoration`	text-decoration	The value `blink` is not supported under Internet Explorer for the EditBox, CommandButton, DropdownList, TextArea, Plain, Password widgets.
Text Indent	`style:text-indent`	text-indent
Text Transform	`style:text-transform`	text-transform
Word Spacing	`style:word-spacing`	word-spacing