AbstractInputField Properties
Properties in View Designer
● activateAccessKey
Activation of access keys.
This property can be personalized both by a user and by an administrator.
● alignment
Horizontal alignment of the text within the input field.
This property can be personalized by an administrator.
Value |
Description |
Can be set using personalization |
auto |
Standard value Automatic alignment of the text content. The alignment is specified by the usage of the UI element - for example, by the data type of the value to be represented. |
Yes |
center |
Centered alignment |
Yes |
forcedLeft |
The text content is always left-justified, regardless of whether property textDirection is set to ltr or rtl. |
Yes |
endOfLine |
The text is always displayed at the end of the line. Therefore, if property textDirection is set to ltr, the text content is right-justified. The text content for value rtl is left-justified. |
Yes |
forcedRight |
The text content is always right-justified, regardless of whether the value of the textDirection property is ltr or rtl. |
Yes |
beginOfLine |
The text is always displayed at the beginning of the line. Therefore, the text content for value ltr of property textDirection is left-justified. The text content for value rtl is right-justified. |
Yes |
● explanation
Help text that is displayed when help mode is activated. See also Explanation Property.
This property can be personalized by an administrator.
● length
Width of the InputField in number of characters. This property is overruled by the width property.
The default value for InputField.length is 0 characters. This causes the adoption of the length from the ABAP Dictionary at runtime. If nothing is maintained or if the length is not restricted, the field is 20 characters long.
See also 12-Hour Time Format.
When proportional font is used where characters are not all of equal width, an average value is used for the character width. For this reason, despite a sufficient length specification, not all the characters may be able to fit in the input field. In this case you can scroll through the text in the input field by moving the input cursor.
This property can be personalized by an administrator.
● passwordField
Boolean value that controls the display of entered characters on the screen. If the value is true, the entered characters on screen are echoed with an asterisk (*). This attribute is usually used for password input fields.
Note that the value of InputField is also transferred to the password mode in plain text. For this reason applications that use the property passwordField should only run in HTTPS mode.
You can go to the HTTPS mode through an ICF service setting in transaction SICF by setting SSL as the Security Requirement on the Logon Data tab on the node for your application in the HTTP service tree.
● readOnly
Determines whether the input field can be edited or read only.
This property
can be personalized by an administrator.
In personalization, this property
can be assigned the value 'true'.
● state
Error status of the interface element.
This property can be personalized by an administrator.
Value |
Visual Display |
Description |
Can be set using personalization |
normal |
|
Normal status of the interface element |
No |
required |
|
The value must be
entered. |
Yes |
● textDirection
Text or writing direction.
This enables labels of interface elements to be read in languages that have an RTL writing direction, such as Arabic or Hebrew, as opposed to LTR for languages like English.
This property can be personalized by an administrator.
Value |
Description |
Can be set using personalization |
INHERIT |
The text direction is inherited from the parent element. Therefore, the text direction is identical to that of the parent element. |
Yes |
LTR |
Left to right text direction |
Yes |
RTL |
Right to left text direction |
Yes |
● value
Character string displayed within the input field frame. This property must be bound to a context attribute (see Data Binding of User Interface Element Properties).
This property can be personalized both by a user and by an administrator. You can also predefine values; refer to Methods and Properties of UI Elements.
● width
Width of the interface element, specified in CSS sizes, such as em, ex, pixel, or percent. See also Methods and Properties of UI Elements.
This property can be personalized by an administrator.