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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
| blur | Fired when the text input field loses focus (default event). |
JavaScript API
The client side text entry object is exposed through the global variable named by the widgetVar attribute, but currently there is no API useful to the user.