TextArea Widget

Basics

The TextArea Widget is much like a TextField Widget, but is for displaying multi-line text. As such it can only be bound to a Field that contains text. It has extra options for controlling the wrapping of text onto multiple lines, and in Design mode it can be re-sized in the vertical direction, but otherwise it is pretty well identical to the TextField Widget. It has this icon in the form builder Design mode toolbar:

Editing values

When editing values in Browse mode the 'Return' key to commits the changes and the 'ESC' key cancels the editing, just like in the TextArea Widget. If you are wanting to enter a new line character into the text you must use Ctrl-Return.

Query mode

Text area widget behaves in the same way as text field widget when in query mode.