Buttons and input Native Qt

Text Area

Text Area is a native Zui component in the buttons and input catalog, with 15 component-specific properties.

Usage

Ruby example

Paste this complete Builder example inside the app surface from the Quickstart. Replace illustrative asset paths with files from your project.

Ruby

text_area "Release notes", placeholder: "What changed?", width: 520, height: 180, maximum_length: 2_000

API

Component properties

15 component-specific values, plus shared item and layout properties.

textText configuration for Text Area.property

placeholderPlaceholder configuration for Text Area.property

widthWidth configuration for Text Area.property

heightHeight configuration for Text Area.property

wrapWrap configuration for Text Area.property

read_onlyRead only configuration for Text Area.property

maximum_lengthMaximum length configuration for Text Area.property

foregroundForeground configuration for Text Area.property

backgroundBackground configuration for Text Area.property

accentAccent configuration for Text Area.property

selection_tintSelection tint configuration for Text Area.property

font_familyFont family configuration for Text Area.property

font_sizeFont size configuration for Text Area.property

paddingPadding configuration for Text Area.property

visibleVisible configuration for Text Area.property

Show 14 shared item properties

enabledopacityscalerotationzfill_widthfill_heightpreferred_widthpreferred_heightminimum_widthminimum_heightmaximum_widthmaximum_heightlayout_alignment

Interaction

Events

Subscribe with on widget, :event and keep behavior in Ruby.

↗inputNative event payload

↗changeNative event payload

↗focusNative event payload

↗blurNative event payload

↗selectionNative event payload