Text area

<View width="300px" maxWidth="100%">
  <TextArea placeholder="What do you like about the product?" />
</View>

Form fields have a required name property, so that's the only property you have to pass to TextArea to start using it. If you need to handle its change events - add an onChange property to it.

<TextArea
  name="email"
  placeholder="Enter your email"
  onChange={(args) => console.log(args)}
/>

Same as when using native inputs in React, TextArea can be used as a controlled or uncontrolled component. By default, TextArea is uncontrolled and lets you define its default value using the defaultValue property. In this case, all change events are handled automatically. This approach is helpful when you're pre-filling a form from a data source, but you don't need to control the further behavior of the input.

<TextArea
  name="email"
  placeholder="your.email@gmail.com"
  defaultValue="reshaped.example@gmail.com"
/>

If you need to control the state of the field manually, you can use the value property. That will give you complete control of the component value and will stop handling the value automatically. You will have to update the state using the onChange handler and will be able to add custom logic before that happens.

<TextArea
  name="email"
  placeholder="your.email@gmail.com"
  value="reshaped.example@gmail.com"
  onChange={({ value }) => {
    /* Update your state here */
  }}
/>

TextArea comes in 3 sizes, with the medium size used by default. All sizes are aligned with the paddings of other input components like TextField or Select.

<View gap={3}>
  <TextArea name="desc" size="medium" placeholder="Enter the description" />
  <TextArea name="desc" size="large" placeholder="Enter the description" />
  <TextArea name="desc" size="xlarge" placeholder="Enter the description" />
</View>

TextArea supports responsive syntax for its size property, which means you can change its size based on the viewport.

<TextArea
  name="desc"
  size={{ s: "medium", l: "xlarge" }}
  placeholder="Enter the description"
/>

If you want to alternate the styles of the select, you can use its faded variant.

<TextArea name="desc" placeholder="Enter the description" variant="faded" />

Otherwise, you can also use the headless variant which removes most of the styles from the select and lets you use it for custom layouts.

<TextArea name="desc" placeholder="Enter the description" variant="unstyled" />

You can use hasError property to show the user that TextArea is not passing the form validation.

<TextArea name="desc" hasError />

You can disable TextArea with the disabled flag. However, remember that disabling the field will remove it from the form submit query.

<TextArea name="desc" disabled />

By default, TextArea displays 3 rows of content and can be resized vertically with the native browser resize control. You can either disable TextArea resizing or make it grow automatically based on its value with the resize property.

<TextArea name="desc" resize="auto" placeholder="Insert multiline text here" />

To let the user know what data you expect them to type in, add labels or status messages to your fields with the help of the FormControl utility. In case you're using xlarge TextArea size, you can also combine it with the large FormControl size for better visual alignment.

Note: Don't use placeholders as labels for the fields as users won't see the placeholder when input contains a value.

<FormControl>
  <FormControl.Label>Email</FormControl.Label>
  <TextArea name="name" placeholder="example@gmail.com" />
</FormControl>

When using the headless TextArea, you can align its text content with the rest of the page with TextArea.Aligner utility which will adjust the space automatically based on the size of the TextArea and the padding value it uses. By default it applies negative margins on all sides of the field, but you can control that with the side propery of the aligner.

<View gap={2}>
  <Text variant="featured-3" weight="bold">
    Create a new post
  </Text>

  <TextArea.Aligner>
    <TextArea
      variant="headless"
      placeholder="Tell us your story"
      name="content"
    />
  </TextArea.Aligner>
</View>

<TextArea attributes={{ "aria-label": "Description" }} />