# Text with more rows (Textarea)

## What does it do?

- **General:** A texarea basicly works like a normal input field, but offers the possibility to write in multiple lines.
- **Mandatory:** This field could be marked as mandatory, so the user must fill out this field, otherwise the form can not be submitted.
- **Validation:** This field can also be validated (HTML5, JavaScript and/or PHP) for different inputtypes (email, url, phone, numbers only, letters only, min number, max number, range, length, pattern)
- **Prefill:** An input field can be prefilled from FlexForm, TypoScript, GET/Post-Params or from FE_User table.

## Frontend Output Example

![example_field_textarea](../Images/example_field_textarea.png)

## Backend Configuration Example

![record_field_textarea_tab1](../Images/record_field_textarea_tab1.png)

![record_field_textarea_tab2](../Images/record_field_textarea_tab2.png)

## Explanation

| Field                              | Description                                                                       | Explanation                                                                                                                                                                                                              | Tab      |
|------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------|
| Title                              | Add a label for this field.                                                       | The label is shown in the frontend near to this field.                                                                                                                                                                   | General  |
| Type                               | Choose a fieldtype.                                                               | See explanation below for a special fieldtype. Different fields are  related to some fieldtypes – not all fields are shown on every type.                                                                                | General  |
| Email of sender                    | Check this if this field contains the email of the sender.                        | This is needed to set the correct sender-email-address. If there is no  field marked as Senderemail within the current form, powermail will use a  default value for the Senderemail.                                    | General  |
| Name of sender                     | Check this if this field contains the name (or a part of the name) of the sender. | This is needed to set the correct sender-name. If there is no field  marked as Sendername within the current form, powermail will use a  default value for the Sendername.                                               | General  |
| Mandatory Field                    | This field must contain input.                                                    | Check this if the field must contain input, otherwise submitting the form is not possible.                                                                                                                               | Extended |
| Validation                         | Validate the user input with a validator.                                         | Possible Validation Methods are: Email, URL, Phone, Numbers only,  Letters only, Min Number, Max Number, Range, Length, Pattern (RegEx)                                                                                  | Extended |
| Prefill with value                 | Prefill field value with a static content.                                        | Other possibilities to prefill a field: TypoScript, GET or POST params                                                                                                                                                   | Extended |
| Placeholder                        | Add a placeholder for this input field.                                           | A placeholder text is an example, that should help the user to fill out  an input field. This text is shown in bright grey within the input  field. If you have a name field, you could use the placeholder “John  Doe". | Extended |
| Value from logged in Frontend User | Check if field should be filled from the FE_Users table of a logged in fe_user.   | This value overwrites a static value, if set.                                                                                                                                                                            | Extended |
| Layout                             | Choose a layout.                                                                  | This adds a CSS-Class to the frontend output. Administrator can add, remove or rename some of the entries.                                                                                                               | Extended |
| Description                        | Add a description for this field.                                                 | Per default a description will be rendered as title-attribute in the labels in frontend.                                                                                                                                 | Extended |
| Variables – Individual Fieldname   | This is a marker of this field.                                                   | Use a field variable with {marker} in any RTE or HTML-Template. The marker name is equal in any language.                                                                                                                | Extended |
| Add own Variable                   | Check this, if you want to set your own marker (see row before).                  | After checking this button, TYPO3 ask you to reload. After a reload, you see a new field for setting an own marker.                                                                                                      | Extended |
| Language                           | Choose a language.                                                                | Choose in which frontend language this record should be rendered.                                                                                                                                                        | Access   |
| Hide                               | Disable the form                                                                  | Enable or disable this record.                                                                                                                                                                                           | Access   |
| Start                              | Startdate for this record.                                                        | Same function as known from default content elements or pages in TYPO3.                                                                                                                                                  | Access   |
| Stop                               | Stopdate for this record.                                                         | Same function as known from default content elements or pages in TYPO3.                                                                                                                                                  | Access   |