Form Layout: Configuring a Multiline Text Box

You can configure a multiline text box by using one of the following approaches:

Note: You should use multiline text boxes in the Modern UI instead of text boxes that span multiple columns in the Classic UI.

An example of a multiline text box is shown in the following screenshot.

Configuring a Multiline Text Box with HTML

To configure a multiline text box only in an HTML template, specify the following attributes in the field declaration:

config-type.bind="1", which indicates that the control has multiple lines.
See the list of possible values of the config-type attribute in Fieldset: field Reference Information.
config-rows.bind="N", which specifies the number of lines in the control by default (where N is the number of lines).
The UI control for the text box is qp-text-editor; however, you can use the field tag as usual. The config properties of the control are defined in the ITextEditorControlConfig interface.

An example of a multiline Description box is shown in the following code.

<field name="OrderDesc" config-type.bind="1" config-rows.bind="3"></field>

The code above implements the layout shown in the screenshot at the beginning of the topic.

To configure a multiline text box with TypeScript and HTML, do the following:

In TypeScript code, when defining a field in a view, specify PXFieldOptions.Multiline as the type parameter for the PXFieldState class.
An example is shown in the following code.
```
DocDesc: PXFieldState<PXFieldOptions.Multiline>;
```
In the HTML template, when adding the field, specify the number of lines in the config-rows attribute.
An example is shown in the following code.
```
<field name="DocDesc" config-rows.bind="2"></field>
```