Introduction
The edit text widget provides a user interface in the browser for editing text tiddler fields. The editing element is dynamically bound to the underlying tiddler value: changes to the tiddler are instantly reflected, and any edits are instantly propagated.
By default, applying the EditTextWidget to the text field of a tiddler will generates an HTML <textarea> element, i.e. a multi-line editor. Applying the EditTextWidget to any other field generates an HTML <input type="text"> element, a single-line editor. This behaviour can be overridden with the tag and type attributes.
Content and Attributes
The content of the <$edit-text> widget is ignored.
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| tiddler | The tiddler to edit (defaults to the current tiddler) |
| field | The field to edit (defaults to text). Takes precedence over the index attribute |
| index | The index to edit |
| default | The default text to be provided when the target tiddler doesn't exist |
| class | A CSS class to be assigned to the generated HTML editing element |
| placeholder | Placeholder text to be displayed when the edit field is empty |
| focusPopup | Title of a state tiddler for a popup that is displayed when the editing element has focus |
| focus | Set to "yes" or "true" to automatically focus the editor after creation |
| focusSelectFromStart | Introduced in v5.2.6 If the focus attribute is enabled, determines the position of the start of the selection: 0 (default) places the start of the selection at the beginning of the text, 1 places the start of the selection after the first character, etc. |
| focusSelectFromEnd | Introduced in v5.2.6 If the focus attribute is enabled, determines the position of the end of the selection: 0 (default) places the end of the selection at the end of the text, 1 places the start of the selection before the final character, etc. |
| tabindex | Sets the tabindex attribute of the input or textarea to the given value |
| autocomplete | Introduced in v5.1.23 An optional string to provide a hint to the browser how to handle autocomplete for this input |
| tag | Overrides the generated HTML editing element tag. For a multi-line editor use tag=textarea. For a single-line editor use tag=input |
| type | Overrides the generated HTML editing element type attribute |
| size | The size of the input field (in characters). This exact result depends on browser and font. Use the class attribute to style width for precise control |
| autoHeight | Either "yes" or "no" to specify whether to automatically resize textarea editors to fit their content (defaults to "yes") |
| minHeight | Minimum height for automatically resized textarea editors, specified in CSS length units such as "px", "em" or "%" |
| rows | Sets the rows attribute of a generated textarea |
| cancelPopups | Introduced in v5.1.23 if set to "yes", cancels all popups when the input gets focus |
| inputActions | Introduced in v5.1.23 Optional actions that are triggered every time an input event occurs within the input field or textarea. Introduced in v5.2.1 The variable actionValue is available to the inputActions and contains the value of the input field. |
| refreshTitle | Introduced in v5.1.23 An optional tiddler title that makes the input field update whenever the specified tiddler changes |
| disabled | Introduced in v5.1.23 Optional, disables the text input if set to "yes". Defaults to "no" |
| fileDrop | Introduced in v5.2.0 Optional. When set to "yes" allows dropping or pasting images into the editor to import them. Defaults to "no" |
Examples
If you wanted to change the field myconfig of the tiddler AppSettings, you could use an EditTextWidget to edit the field, and then show the result anywhere else by using {{AppSettings!!myconfig}}. Note that this will create tiddler AppSettings if it doesn't already exist.
<$edit-text tiddler="AppSettings" field="myconfig"/><p/>
Value of ''myconfig'' : {{AppSettings!!myconfig}}
Text Selection
If the edit field already contains text or a default value is provided, you can use the focusSelectFromStart and focusSelectFromEnd attributes to only select part of the text when using focus="yes".
Partial selection when editing this tiddler's caption field:
<$edit-text tiddler=<<currentTiddler>> field="caption" focus="yes" focusSelectFromStart="5" />
Provide a dated heading for this example where only the placeholder (but not the date) is selected for easier text input:
<$edit-text tiddler=<<currentTiddler>> field="heading" size="25" focus="yes" focusSelectFromEnd="13" default={{{ [[Heading Text (]] [<now YYYY-0MM-0DD>] [[)]] +[join[]] }}} />