● 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 the value is ltr or rtl for the textDirection property. |
Yes |
endOfLine |
The text is always displayed at the end of the line. Therefore, the text content for the value ltr of the textDirection property is right-justified. The text content for the value rtl is left-justified. |
Yes |
forcedRight |
The text content is always right-justified, regardless of whether the value is ltr or rtl for the textDirection property. |
Yes |
beginOfLine |
The text is always displayed at the beginning of the line. Therefore, the text content for the value ltr of the textDirection property is left-justified. The text content for the value rtl is right-justified. |
Yes |
● length
Width of theInputField in number of characters. This property is overruled by the width property.
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 , 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 tab Logon Data 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.
This property can be assigned the value, true, through
personalization.
● 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 Hebrew and Arabic, as opposed to LTR 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
Character string displayed within the input field frame. This property must be bound to a context attribute (see Data Binding of UI Element Properties).
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.
This property can be personalized by an administrator.