@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'
darkMode	boolean	Determines whether or not the component will appear in dark mode.	false
...	native input attributes	Any other props will be spread on the root input element

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.