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# Text Input Fieldtype

Text Input is a single-lined free-form writing space where you can enter text or HTML.

## Field Options

### Maximum Characters

The maximum number of characters this field should allow.

### Text Formatting

Specifies how the entered-text will be formatted when rendered on the front-end. Choices include replacing each linebreak with a `BR` tag, automatically surrounding paragraphs with `P` tags, or Markdown processing. Additional plugins may be installed to provide more text formatting options.

### Allow Override?

When set to yes, authors can override the default text formatting for this field from the publish form to set it to a format other than what was selected as the default above.

### Text Direction

Either left-to-right, or right-to-left.

### Allowed Content

Restricts the text field to certain data types, while also informing how the data should be sorted on the front-end (numbers represented as text will sort differently than regular numbers).

### Field Tools

Show a smiley chooser, or show a file chooser button to easily insert images or links to files.