Text Input

Set Keyboard type
You can choose from the following types of keyboards:
Default keyboard: Displays your device’s default keyboard
Email Address: Displays an alphanumeric keyboard to accept email addresses
Numeric: Displays a keypad with only numbers; It is similar to the phone pad keyboard
Phone Pad: Displays a telephone keypad; It is similar to the numeric keyboard
Set up for Passwords
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You can also set up Text Input for passwords as shown below using the Secure Text Entry Switch. This switch will replace text with * as users type.
To activate Secure Text Entry, look for the Text Input Style properties and make sure that the  Secure Text Entry switch is set to true.
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Style the Text Input
You can customize the Text Input component with the following properties: 
Hint: Hint text that disappears when the user starts typing into the Text Input
Text: Text that appears on the text input 
Visible: To see the text input in your app, set the switch to true
Border
Width: Enter how wide you want the border outline of the text input to be
Color: Pick a color for the border of the text input
Style: Select if you want the border to be a dotted, dashed or solid line
Radius: Enter how round you want the edges of the border for the text input to be
Edit the Text Input size
You can set how tall the text input is using the Height property and set how wide the text input is using the Width property.
Height
Fill container - The text input fills the entire screen vertically
Fit contents (Recommended) - The text input’s height changes to fit the contents it contains
Relative size - The text input fills the specified percentage of the screen
Absolute size - Sizes the text input to a specified number of pixels
Width
Fill container - The text input fills the entire screen horizontally
Fit contents - The text input’s width changes to fit the contents it contains
Relative size - The text input fills the specified percentage of the screen
Absolute - Sizes the text input to a specified number of pixels
Add spacing
You change the spacing and positioning of the text input with the Margin and Padding properties. 

Margin
You can specify how much space you want between the edges of the text input and the screen using either pixel or percent values.
Padding
You can specify how much space you want between the border and the contents of the text input using either pixel or percent values.
Events
Click
This event fires when the user clicks on the Text Input component.
Unfocus 
This event fires when the component looses focus, i.e the user clicks on another component.
Submit 
This event fires when the enter or submit button is pressed on the device keyboard.
Changes
This event fires every time a character is added or removed to the Text Input.
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Properties
Border Width
The border width value corresponds to the size of the border around the Text Input. Changes to the color and style of the border must be done in the designer. 
Height 
The set and get height blocks work with the Height property of the Text Input component. Acceptable input values are. 
Number of Pixels
Percentage Height
"Fit Contents"
"Fill Container"
The Computed Height block returns the on-screen dimensions of the Text Input, after it has been rendered on the device screen. The value returned is an integer, representing the size of the component, in pixels.
Hint 
The set and get hint work with the prompt that is displayed in the Text Input, before the user starts typing. Any string of text or number can be used as the hint.
Keyboard Type 
The set and get keyboard type property gives you control over what version of the keyboard is displayed on-screen when the user starts typing. Acceptable values are:

default
email address
numeric
phone pad
Text 
The set and get text property works with the string of text that displayed in the Text Input. 
Visible 
The set and get visible blocks are used to show or hide the entire Text Input component. Acceptable values are:
True
False
Width
The set and get width blocks work with the Width property of the Text Input component. Acceptable values are.‌
Number of Pixels
Percentage Width
"Fit Contents"
"Fill Container"
The Computed Width block returns the on-screen dimensions of the Text Input, after it has been rendered on the device screen. The value returned is an integer, representing the size of the component, in pixels.
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