Form Fields & Components: Text Area

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A multi-line text entry field. The Text Area field does not allow text formatting like the Rich Text control does. Typical usage examples include: Description and Comments.

The default look of the Text Area component

Text Area Field Properties

Setting	Description
Basic Tab / General Settings
Display Name Field Help Text Required	See General Field Features
Basic Tab / Validation Section
Maximum Allowed Characters	Enable to set a maximum number of characters. Displays the following two fields when enabled:
Max Length	Enter the desired maximum number of characters.
Message to show users	Enter the text to display when the user entered value has a higher number of characters than the Max Length value.
Basic Tab / Format Section
Text Format	Select from: None Lower Case – All characters are made lower case Upper Case – All characters are capitalized Capitalize Word – First character of each word is capitalized Capitalize Paragraph – First character of each paragraph is capitalized
Remove Extra Spaces	Enable to have duplicate spaces, two or more spaces in a row, removed from the field text.
Advanced Tab / Concatenation – See below, or see Concatenation
Advanced Tab / Conditional Visibility – See Conditional Visibility

Concatenate Text Options

Allows you to combine the text of several text-like fields together with a separator character or characters between the values, e.g. State field, a space, and the Zipcode to give “CA 12345”.

Concatenate Text Options

Setting	Description
Field Name	Select the desired field from the list, or select Custom and type the desired text into the field.
Spacer	Select an option from the list, or select Custom and type the actual desired spacer text into the field. Defined options are: space underscore dash
	Delete this row. Only available for rows three and above.
	Adds a new Field Name field at the bottom of the list, and adds a Spacer field after the prior Field Name field.