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Overview
TextEntry is a component for entering single line text. It has additional styling and functional feature.
Getting Started
<ace:textEntry id="firstNameInput" value="#{textEntryBean.firstName}" label="First Name" labelPosition="left" required="true" requiredIndicator="(*)" indicatorPosition="right"/>
Attributes
TagLib Documentation This section covers attributes involved in the typical use-cases for this component. For reference, the complete taglib documentation for this component is available here. |
value is the input text.
label and labelPosition specify the label text and its position relative to the input field. Positions can be "left/right/top/bottom/inField/none". Default is "none".
required indicates whether the user is required to provide a non-empty submitted value for this component. Default = "false".
Depending on whether input is required, an optionalIndicator or requiredIndicator can be supplied. The position of the indicator is specified by indicatorPosition. Positions can be "left/right/top/bottom/labelLeft/labelRight/none". Default is "labelRight" if labelPosition is "inField", "right" otherwise.
Event Listeners
valueChangeListener | Listener method that will be notified when a new value has been set for this input component. |
Client Behavior Events
dateSelect | Fired when a date is selected from the calendar (default event). |
JavaScript API
The client side date/time object is exposed through the global variable named by the widgetVar attribute, but currently there is no API useful to the user.
Keyboard Support
These keyboard shortcuts work only in a popup calendar without the time component. Some of them may conflict with browser keyboard shortcuts.
Keypress | Result |
---|---|
page up/down | previous/next month |
ctrl+page up/down | previous/next year |
ctrl+home | current month or open when closed |
ctrl+left/right | previous/next day |
ctrl+up/down | previous/next week |
enter | select the focused day |
ctrl+end | close and erase the date |
escape | close the calendar without selection |