Text Area

This operation will add a password text box to the current Form Container action. A password text box will not display the characters typed by the user.

Settings

The action uses the following settings:

Setting	Description	Parsed
Label	The text that should be displayed beside the text area field.	✅
Placeholder	The text displayed inside the text area field if the field is empty.	✅
Default Value	The default text value of the text area field.	✅
Rows	The number of rows immediately displayed by the text area. This value will change the height of the text area.	✅
Mandatory	Choose if the field is required to save the form or not.	⛔
Validation Expression	A standard JS validation expression that will be used to validate the text area field. Leave blank if no validation is required.	✅
Validation Message	The message that will be displayed if the the user input does not pass the validation expression check.	✅
Target Variable	The variable that will receive the final value of the text area field.	✅

Remarks

This is a standard HTML Text Area field. UI layout may vary depending on the browser and on the platform used.

Validation expressions should not be specified as literals. Remove the slashes enclosing the expression before using them for this field.

Trigger

This action does not trigger any event.

Variables

This action does not return any variable but the one that have been specified in the Target Variable setting.

Availability

Channel specific availability follows the table below:

Channel	Availability
Facebook	Fully Available.
WhatsApp	Fully Available.
Telegram	Fully Available.
Web	Fully Available.
Alexa	Not Available.
Google Assistant	Not Available.
Slack	Fully Available.
API	Fully Available.

This action can be used only inside interactions and not as child of other actions. This action is available only to Premium Accounts.