@leafygreen-ui/text-input

Text Input

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Installation

Yarn

yarn add @leafygreen-ui/text-input

NPM

npm install @leafygreen-ui/text-input

Peer Dependencies

Package	Version
@leafygreen-ui/leafygreen-provider	^1.1.0

Example

import TextInput from '@leafygreen-ui/text-input';

const [value, setValue] = useState('');

return (
  <TextInput
    label='Email'
    description='Enter your email below'
    placeholder='[e-mail]'
    onChange={event => { /* Something to handle the change event */ }}
    value={value}
  />
)

Output HTML

<div class="leafygreen-ui-4t2zpc">
  <label for="text-input-2604213" class="leafygreen-ui-1ie388">
    Email
  </label>
  <p class="leafygreen-ui-1vlu192">
    Enter your email below
  </p>
  <div class="leafygreen-ui-lzja97">
    <input data-leafygreen-ui="input-selector" class="leafygreen-ui-86cw8t" type="text" required="" placeholder="[e-mail]" id="text-input-2604213" value="">
    <div data-leafygreen-ui="icon-selector" class="leafygreen-ui-m329s1"></div>
    <div class="leafygreen-ui-1andb55"></div>
  </div>
</div>

Properties

Prop	Type	Description	Default
id	string	id associated with the TextInput component.
label	string	Text shown in bold above the input element.
description	string	Text that gives more detail about the requirements for the input.
optional	boolean	Marks the input as optional	false
disabled	boolean	Disabled the input	false
onChange	function	The event handler function for the 'onchange' event. Accepts the change event object as its argument and returns nothing.
placeholder	string	The placeholder text shown in the input field before the user begins typing.
errorMessage	string	Text that gives more detail about the requirements for the input.
state	none, valid, error	Describes the state of the TextInput element before and after the input has been validated	none
value	string	Sets the HTML value attribute.	''
className	string	Adds a className to the class attribute.	''
type	email, password, search, text, url, tel	Sets type for TextInput	text

Special Case: Aria Labels

Either label or aria-labelledby must be provided a string, or there will be a console error. This is to ensure that screenreaders have a description for what the Text Input does.

Any other properties will be spread on the input element.