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Textarea

ui.widgets.Textarea

Multi-line editing with helper, error and disabled states.

BEHAVIOR CONTRACT

Line breaks, selection, scrolling, grapheme boundaries and IME preedit / commit match the single-line input.

RECORDED INTERACTION

The harness focuses the box and writes two lines.

examples/storybook/stories.zig:2923
// ── Textarea ──
pub fn buildTextarea(scope: *ui.Scope, cx: *ui.Cx) anyerror!*ui.Node {
    const a = cx.allocator;
    const c = try col(cx, 12);

    const ta = try W.Textarea(.{ .label_text = "Notes", .placeholder = "Write something…", .rows = 5, .width = 420 }).mount(scope, cx);
    ta.meta.ownership.meta.test_id = "story.textarea.box";
    try c.appendChild(a, ta);

    try c.appendChild(a, try W.Textarea(.{ .label_text = "With helper", .placeholder = "Bio", .helper = "Max 500 characters", .rows = 3, .width = 420 }).mount(scope, cx));
    try c.appendChild(a, try W.Textarea(.{ .label_text = "With error", .value = "too short", .error_msg = "Please write more", .rows = 3, .width = 420 }).mount(scope, cx));
    try c.appendChild(a, try W.Textarea(.{ .label_text = "Disabled", .placeholder = "Cannot edit", .disabled = true, .rows = 3, .width = 420 }).mount(scope, cx));
    return c;
}
View source on GitHubexamples/storybook/stories.zig:2923

The story's verbatim source from the Storybook (zenit 4c50245 2026-10-01). W is ui.widgets; col / row / label are small Storybook layout helpers.

zenit · Dual-licensedFree for open-source projects under GPL-3.0-only; closed-source or commercial products need a commercial license.Contact the author: zongyi.xzy#gmail.com (replace # with @)zenit 4c50245 2026-10-01