Sun Java System Portal Server Mobile Access 7.1 Developer's Reference

AmlTextArea

Description

An AmlTextArea offers a larger text input area than an AmlText. This element is used for descriptions. The AmlTextArea has an AmlText for its label. The value of the name attribute is the variable where entered content is available. AmlTextArea can be added to an AmlForm.

Element Body

((AmlContainer*, (AmlText | AmlImage)?, AmlStyle?)

Parent

AmlForm, AmlTableCol, AmlGroup, AmlListItem

Restrictions

None

AML Attributes

Attribute	Description	Possible values	Default	Req’d?
name	Set variable name content	CDATA	No Default	Yes
value	Set value for `text area`	CDATA	No Default	No
view	Set view option	(show\|hidden\|none)	show	No
height	Set height of text area	CDATA	No Default	No
width	Set width of text area	CDATA	No Default	No
format	Set format	CDATA	No Default	No
maxchars	Set maxchars of text area	CDATA	No Default	No
italics	Deprecated	(true\|false)	false	No
bold	Deprecated	(true\|false)	false	No
underline	Set underline text	(true\|false)	false	No
text	Deprecated	CDATA	No Default	No
textsize	Deprecated	(big\|normal\|small)	normal
persist	Set persist flag	(true\|false)	false	No

Markup Language Examples

Sample AML Input:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-6"?>
	<AmlDocument>
		<AmlPage>
			<AmlForm url="http://watchita">
				<AmlTextArea name="desc" >
				<AmlText text="Description"/> </AmlTextArea>
			</AmlForm>
		</AmlPage>
</AmlDocument>

Sample WML Output:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">
<wml>
	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="max-age=0"/>
	</head>
	<card id="agp0">
		<p align="center"></p>
		<p> Description
		<input emptyok="true" name="desc"/>
		</p>
		<do label="submit" type="accept">
			<go href="http://watchita?desc=$(desc)" sendreferer="true" method="get"/>
		</do>
	</card>
</wml>

Sample cHTML Output:

<html>
	<head>
		<title></title>
		<meta name="PalmComputingPlatform" content="true"></meta>
		<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"></meta>
		<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache"></meta>
	</head>
	<body>
		<div align="center">
			<a name="agp0"></a>
		</div>
		<form enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
		action="http://watchita" method="get">
		Description
		<textarea name="desc"></textarea><br>
		<input name="request" type="submit" value="Submit"></input>
		</form>
	</body>
</html>