Overview
This text input component is useful in situations where you want to ask the user to enter as much text as they want, but don't want to take up a lot of room on the page.
Note: This component uses WrappedStandardElement
to wrap a standard <textarea>
element. This allows it to provide all
standard HTMLTextAreaElement
properties, methods, and events, in addition
to those specifically listed in the AutoSizeTextarea
API.
API
Class hierarchy:
The element defines the following shadow parts:
-
inner
: the inner standard HTML element -
textarea
: the inner standard HTML textarea
boolean Attribute Value(name, value) static method
Given a string value for a named boolean attribute, return true
if the
value is either: a) the empty string, or b) a case-insensitive match for the
name.
This is native HTML behavior; see the MDN documentation on boolean attributes for the reasoning.
Given a null value, this return false
.
Given a boolean value, this return the value as is.
Parameters:
- name:
string
– - value:
string|boolean|null
–
Defined by AttributeMarshallingMixin
content Slot property
See contentSlot.
Defined by SlotContentMixin
default State property
The default state for the component. This can be extended by mixins and classes to provide additional default state.
Type: PlainObject
Defined by ReactiveMixin
delegates Focus property
Returns true if the component is delegating its focus.
A component using DelegateFocusMixin
will always have this property be
true unless a class takes measures to override it.
Type: boolean
Default: true
Defined by DelegateFocusMixin
extends property
The tag name of the standard HTML element extended by this class.
Defined by WrappedStandardElement
form property
The ID of the form
element with which this element is associated,
or null
if the element is not associated with any form. This is provided
for consistency with the native HTML
form
property.
Type: string
Defined by FormElementMixin
ids property
A convenient shortcut for looking up an element by ID in the component's Shadow DOM subtree.
Example: if component's template contains a shadow element <button id="foo">
, you can use the reference this[ids].foo
to obtain
the corresponding button in the component instance's shadow tree. The
ids
property is simply a shorthand for getElementById
, so
this[ids].foo
is the same as
this[shadowRoot].getElementById('foo')
.
Type: object
Defined by ShadowTemplateMixin
inner property
Returns a reference to the inner standard HTML element.
Type: HTMLElement
Defined by WrappedStandardElement
input event
Raised when the user changes the element's text content.
This is the standard input
event; the component does not do any work
to raise it. It is documented here to let people know it is available
to detect when the user edits the content.
input event
Raised when the value
property changes.
minimum Rows property
Determines the minimum number of rows shown. This is similar to the rows attribute on a standard textarea, but because this element can grow, is expressed as a minimum rather than a fixed number.
By default, this property is 1, so when empty, the text area will be a single line tall. That's efficient in terms of the space it consumes, but until the user interacts with the element, they may not realize they can enter multiple lines of text. Setting the property to a value higher than 1 will signal to the user that they can enter multiple lines of a text.
By setting this property, you can also communicate to the user some sense of how much text you're expecting them to provide. For example, on a feedback form, asking the user to enter their feedback in a single-line text box implies you don't really want them to enter much text — even if the text box will grow when they type. By setting this to a value like, say, 10 rows, you can signal that you're fully expecting them to enter more text.
Type: number
Default: 1
name property
The name of the form field that will be filled with this element's
value
. This is an analogue of the standard HTML
name
property.
Type: string
Defined by FormElementMixin
render(changed) method
Render the indicated changes in state to the DOM.
The default implementation of this method does nothing. Override this method in your component to update your component's host element and any shadow elements to reflect the component's new state. See the rendering example.
Be sure to call super
in your method implementation so that your
component's base classes and mixins have a chance to perform their own
render work.
Parameters:
- changed:
ChangedFlags
– dictionary of flags indicating which state members have changed since the last render
Defined by ReactiveMixin
render Changes() method
Render any pending component changes to the DOM.
This method does nothing if the state has not changed since the last render call.
ReactiveMixin will invoke this method following a setState
call;
you should not need to invoke this method yourself.
This method invokes the internal render
method, then invokes the
rendered
method.
Defined by ReactiveMixin
rendered(changed) method
Perform any work that must happen after state changes have been rendered to the DOM.
The default implementation of this method does nothing. Override this
method in your component to perform work that requires the component to
be fully rendered, such as setting focus on a shadow element or
inspecting the computed style of an element. If such work should result
in a change in component state, you can safely call setState
during the
rendered
method.
Be sure to call super
in your method implementation so that your
component's base classes and mixins have a chance to perform their own
post-render work.
Parameters:
- changed:
ChangedFlags
–
Defined by ReactiveMixin
set State(changes) method
Update the component's state by merging the specified changes on top of the existing state. If the component is connected to the document, and the new state has changed, this returns a promise to asynchronously render the component. Otherwise, this returns a resolved promise.
Parameters:
- changes:
PlainObject
– the changes to apply to the element's state
Returns: Promise
- resolves when the new state has been rendered
Defined by ReactiveMixin
state property
The component's current state.
The returned state object is immutable. To update it, invoke
internal.setState
.
It's extremely useful to be able to inspect component state while
debugging. If you append ?elixdebug=true
to a page's URL, then
ReactiveMixin will conditionally expose a public state
property that
returns the component's state. You can then access the state in your
browser's debug console.
Type: PlainObject
Defined by ReactiveMixin
state Effects(state, changed) method
Ask the component whether a state with a set of recently-changed fields implies that additional second-order changes should be applied to that state to make it consistent.
This method is invoked during a call to internal.setState
to give all
of a component's mixins and classes a chance to respond to changes in
state. If one mixin/class updates state that it controls, another
mixin/class may want to respond by updating some other state member that
it controls.
This method should return a dictionary of changes that should be applied
to the state. If the dictionary object is not empty, the
internal.setState
method will apply the changes to the state, and
invoke this stateEffects
method again to determine whether there are
any third-order effects that should be applied. This process repeats
until all mixins/classes report that they have no additional changes to
make.
See an example of how ReactiveMixin
invokes the stateEffects
to
ensure state consistency.
Parameters:
- state:
PlainObject
– a proposal for a new state - changed:
ChangedFlags
– the set of fields changed in this latest proposal for the new state
Returns: PlainObject
Defined by ReactiveMixin
template property
The template copied into the shadow tree of new instances of this element.
The default value of this property is a template that includes an instance
the standard element being wrapped, with a <slot>
element inside that
to pick up the element's light DOM content. For example, if you wrap an
<a>
element, then the default template will look like:
<template>
<style>
:host {
display: inline-block;
}
</style>
<a id="inner">
<slot></slot>
</a>
</template>
The display
styling applied to the host will be block
for elements that
are block elements by default, and inline-block
(not inline
) for other
elements.
If you'd like the template to include other elements, then override this property and return a template of your own. The template should include an instance of the standard HTML element you are wrapping, and the ID of that element should be "inner".
Type: string|HTMLTemplateElement
Defined by WrappedStandardElement
type property
The "type" of the form field, provided for consistency with the native HTML type property.
If a base class provides a type
property, that will be returned. (If
this mixin is applied to a class defined by WrappedStandardElement, this
will return the type
of the inner standard element.) Otherwise, the
default value of this property will be the same as the HTML tag name
registered for the custom element.
Type: string
Defined by FormElementMixin
value property
The text currently shown in the textarea.
Note that the text shown in the textarea can also be updated by changing the element's innerHTML/textContent. However, if the value property is explicitly set, that will override the innerHTML/textContent.
Type: string
wrap(extendsTag) static method
Creates a class that wraps a standard HTML element.
Note that the resulting class is a subclass of WrappedStandardElement, not
the standard class being wrapped. E.g., if you call
WrappedStandardElement.wrap('a')
, you will get a class whose shadow tree
will include an anchor element, but the class will not inherit from
HTMLAnchorElement.
Parameters:
- extendsTag:
string
– the standard HTML element tag to extend
Defined by WrappedStandardElement