Textarea Fieldtype
The Textarea is a simple free-form writing space where you can enter text or HTML.
Field Settings
Textarea Row Height
Height of the editor in rows of text.
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.
Field Tools
Show formatting buttons to make writing markup easier, show a smiley chooser, or show a file chooser button to easily insert images or links to files.
Parsing File Tags
The Textarea fieldtype supports the use of file tags in the format {file:XX:field} where XX is the file ID and field is any field associated with that file, such as url, filename, title, etc.
When the content of a Textarea field is parsed for display, these tags will be replaced with the corresponding values from the file model.
For example, if you have a file with ID 5, and you want to insert its URL into the Textarea content, you would use the tag {file:5:url}. When the content is rendered, this tag will be replaced with the actual URL of the file.
The supported fields for file tags include:
url: The absolute URL to the file.file_name: The name of the file.title: The title of the file.description: The description of the file.file_size: The size of the file in bytes.width: The width of the file in pixels.height: The height of the file in pixels.mime_type: The MIME type of the file.location: Where the photo was takencredits: Photo credits