Text field

Import
import { TextField } from "reshaped";
import type { TextFieldProps } from "reshaped";
Related components
Full keyboard navigation
Can be controlled and uncontrolled
Automatic integration with FormControl utility
Supports multiple variants, inlcuding headless


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

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

Same as when using native inputs in React, TextField can be used as a controlled or uncontrolled component. By default, TextField 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.

<TextField
  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.

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

TextField supports prefix and suffix properties for rendering the field affixes. They can be helpful when you're displaying a value in a specific format, like phone numbers with country code or dimensions of an object.

<TextField name="email" placeholder="hello" suffix="@gmail.com" />

TextField has slots on both start and end sides, which you can use for displaying inline content, like text, badges, or inline actions.

<View gap={3}>
  <TextField startSlot={<Badge color="neutral">Breakfast</Badge>} name="name" />
  <TextField name="email" endSlot={<Button color="neutral" size="small" color="primary">Action</Badge>} />
</View>

For consistent Icon usage in text fields, you can use icon and endIcon properties instead of slots and pass the icon SVG component.

<View gap={3}>
  <TextField icon={IconZap} name="email" />
  <TextField endIcon={IconZap} name="email" />
</View>

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

<View gap={3}>
  <TextField
    icon={IconZap}
    name="email"
    size="medium"
    placeholder="Enter your email"
  />
  <TextField
    icon={IconZap}
    name="email"
    size="large"
    placeholder="Enter your email"
  />
  <TextField
    icon={IconZap}
    name="email"
    size="xlarge"
    placeholder="Enter your email"
  />
</View>

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

<TextField
  icon={IconZap}
  name="email"
  size={{ s: "medium", l: "xlarge" }}
  placeholder="Enter your email"
/>

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

<TextField
  icon={IconZap}
  name="email"
  variant="faded"
  placeholder="Enter your email"
/>

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

<TextField
  icon={IconZap}
  name="email"
  variant="headless"
  placeholder="Enter your email"
/>
  • Since headless variant removes the horizontal padding, you might want to add it yourself with a custom wrapper for the input that would expand the clickable area.
  • headless variant removes the focused and error outline since most of the time you would want to display them in a different place. You can use :focus-within selector in your css to implement the focus state.

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

<TextField name="email" hasError />

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

<TextField name="email" disabled />

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 TextField 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>
  <TextField name="name" placeholder="example@gmail.com" />
</FormControl>

TextField can be used with any type supported in the browsers by passing it to the inputAttributes.

<TextField
  name="password"
  defaultValue="123"
  inputAttributes={{ type: "password" }}
/>

When using the headless TextField, you can align its text content with the rest of the page with TextField.Aligner utility which will adjust the space automatically based on the size of the TextField 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">
    Getting started
  </Text>

  <TextField.Aligner>
    <TextField variant="headless" placeholder="Enter your name" name="name" />
  </TextField.Aligner>
</View>
  • When using TextField without a label - make sure to provide a text description. You can either provide the label by using the FormControl utility or by passing inputAttributes={{ 'aria-label': 'Your label' }} to the component if you don't want to display it visually.
<TextField attributes={{ "aria-label": "Email" }} />