Textarea: Use Cases
Prefilled
You can prefill the textarea. If you want to prefill on multiline, you will have to add newline characters '\n'.
export const prefilled = () => html`
<lion-textarea
label="Prefilled"
.modelValue=${['batman', 'and', 'robin'].join('\n')}
></lion-textarea>
`;
Disabled
The textarea can be disabled with the disabled attribute.
export const disabled = () => html` <lion-textarea label="Disabled" disabled></lion-textarea> `;
Readonly
readonly attribute indicate that you can't change the content. Compared with disabled attribute, the readonly attribute doesn't prevent clicking or selecting the element.
export const readonly = () => html`
<lion-textarea
label="Readonly"
readonly
.modelValue=${['batman', 'and', 'robin'].join('\n')}
></lion-textarea>
`;
Stop growing
Use the max-rows attribute to make it stop growing after a certain amount of lines.
export const stopGrowing = () => html`
<lion-textarea
label="Stop growing"
max-rows="4"
.modelValue=${['batman', 'and', 'robin'].join('\n')}
></lion-textarea>
`;
Non-growing
To have a fixed size provide rows and max-rows with the same value.
export const nonGrowing = () => html`
<lion-textarea label="Non Growing" rows="3" max-rows="3"></lion-textarea>
`;
Intersection Observer
It could be that your textarea is inside a hidden container, for example for a dialog or accordion or tabs. When it is hidden, the resizing is calculated based on the visible space of the text. Therefore, an Intersection Observer observes visibility changes of the textarea relative to the viewport, and resizes the textarea when a visibility change happens.
For old browsers like old Edge or IE11, a polyfill is required to be added on the application level for this to work. For most cases, the optimized default will suffice.
In the demo below you can see that the textarea is correctly calculated to 4 maximum rows, whereas without the observer, it would be on 2 rows and only resize on user input.
export const hidden = () => html`
<div style="display: none">
<lion-textarea
.modelValue="${'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.'}"
label="Stops growing after 4 rows"
max-rows="4"
></lion-textarea>
</div>
<button
@click=${e =>
(e.target.previousElementSibling.style.display =
e.target.previousElementSibling.style.display === 'block' ? 'none' : 'block')}
>
Toggle display
</button>
`;