TextEdit Properties 

Properties in the View Designer

●     cols

Width of the TextEdit UI element as a number of characters.

Note that the cols property can be overridden by the width property.

This property can be personalized by an administrator.

●     explanation

Help text for an application that is displayed in activated help mode.

See also Explanation

●     height

Height of the interface element, specified in CSS sizes, such as em, ex, pixel, or percent. See also Methods and Properties - General Information.

Note that this property can be overridden by the rows property.

This property can be personalized by an administrator.

●     readOnly

Specifies whether the user can edit text in the TextEdit or whether it is to be displayed as read-only.

This property can be personalized by an administrator.
This property can be assigned the value, true, through personalization.

●     rows

Height of the TextEdit UI element as a number of lines.

Note that this property can be overridden by the height property.

This property can be personalized by an administrator.

●     state

Input status of the UI 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 Hebrew and Arabic, as opposed to LTR (left to right) such as 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 the one of the parent element.	Yes
LTR	Left to right text direction	Yes
RTL	Right to left text direction	Yes

●     value

Text to be displayed. The text can be edited.

The attribute to be bound can be of type STRING or STRING_TABLE. With STRING_TABLE rows from TextEdit are stored as table rows. A line break is always stored as a line feed in a STRING (CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>NEWLINE, ASCII decimal 10). The Web Dynpro framework carries out the conversion for the client platform.

Note that a string to be displayed in TextEdit, must only use a line feed as a line break.

Primary Property

This property can be personalized by an administrator.

●     width

Width of the interface element, specified in CSS sizes, such as em, ex, pixel, or percent. See also Methods and Properties - General Information.

Note that this property can be overridden by the cols property.

This property can be personalized by an administrator.

●     wrapping

Specifies whether or not the texts can be wrapped to the next line.

This property can be personalized by an administrator.

Value	Description	Can be set using personalization
off	The text is not wrapped. If the text row length exceeds the width specified by the col property, a horizontal scroll bar is displayed.	Yes
hard	Wraps the text if the value specified by the col property is reached. A carriage return is inserted for each wrapping. A horizontal scroll bar is not displayed for this value.	Yes
soft	Wraps the text if the value specified by the col attribute is reached. A carriage return is not inserted for each wrapping.	Yes