ui:inputText | Lightning Components Developer Guide

A ui:inputText component represents a text input field, which is rendered as an HTML input tag of type text. To apply Lightning Design System styling, we recommend that you use lightning:input instead of ui:inputText.

This is a basic set up of a text field.

1<ui:inputText label="Expense Name" value="My Expense" required="true"/>

This example results in the following HTML.

1<div class="uiInput uiInputTextuiInput--default uiInput--input">
2  <label class="uiLabel-left form-element__label uiLabel">
3    <span>Expense Name</span>
4    <span class="required">*</span>
5  </label>
6  <input required="required" class="input" type="text">
7</div>

This example binds the value of a ui:inputText component to ui:outputText. To apply Lightning Design System styling, we recommend that you use lightning:input instead of ui:inputText.

1<aura:component>
2    <aura:attribute name="myText" type="string" default="Hello there!"/>
3 <ui:inputText label="Enter some text" class="field" value="{!v.myText}" updateOn="click"/>
4 You entered: <ui:outputText value="{!v.myText}"/> 
5</aura:component>

Attributes

Attribute Name	Attribute Type	Description
`body`	Component[]	The body of the component. In markup, this is everything in the body of the tag.
`class`	String	A CSS style to be attached to the component. This style is added in addition to base styles output by the component.
`disabled`	Boolean	Specifies whether the component should be displayed in a disabled state. Default value is "false".
`errors`	List	The list of errors to be displayed.
`label`	String	The text of the label component
`labelClass`	String	The CSS class of the label component
`maxlength`	Integer	The maximum number of characters that can be typed into the input field. Corresponds to the maxlength attribute of the rendered HTML input element.
`placeholder`	String	Text that is displayed when the field is empty, to prompt the user for a valid entry.
`required`	Boolean	Specifies whether the input is required. Default value is "false".
`requiredIndicatorClass`	String	The CSS class of the required indicator component
`size`	Integer	The width of the input field, in characters. Corresponds to the size attribute of the rendered HTML input element.
`updateOn`	String	Updates the component's value binding if the updateOn attribute is set to the handled event. Default value is "change".
`value`	String	The value currently in the input field.

Events

Event Name	Event Type	Description
`dblclick`	COMPONENT	The event fired when the user double-clicks the component.
`mouseover`	COMPONENT	The event fired when the user moves the mouse pointer over the component.
`mouseout`	COMPONENT	The event fired when the user moves the mouse pointer away from the component.
`mouseup`	COMPONENT	The event fired when the user releases the mouse button over the component.
`mousemove`	COMPONENT	The event fired when the user moves the mouse pointer over the component.
`click`	COMPONENT	The event fired when the user clicks on the component.
`mousedown`	COMPONENT	The event fired when the user clicks a mouse button over the component.
`select`	COMPONENT	The event fired when the user selects some text.
`blur`	COMPONENT	The event fired when the user moves off from the component.
`focus`	COMPONENT	The event fired when the user focuses on the component.
`keypress`	COMPONENT	The event fired when the user presses or holds down a keyboard key on the component.
`keyup`	COMPONENT	The event fired when the user releases a keyboard key on the component.
`keydown`	COMPONENT	The event fired when the user presses a keyboard key on the component.
`cut`	COMPONENT	The event fired when the user cuts content to the clipboard.
`onError`	COMPONENT	The event fired when there are any validation errors on the component.
`onClearErrors`	COMPONENT	The event fired when any validation errors should be cleared.
`change`	COMPONENT	The event fired when the user changes the content of the input.
`copy`	COMPONENT	The event fired when the user copies content to the clipboard.
`paste`	COMPONENT	The event fired when the user pastes content from the clipboard.