AbstractInputField Properties

Use

activateAccessKey

Activates access keys.

Both users and administrators can personalize this property.

alignment

Horizontal alignment of the text within the InputField.

This property can be personalized by administrators.

Value	Description	Can Be Set Using Personalization
auto	Default 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 displayed.	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 ltr is set to textDirection, 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 property textDirection is set to ltr or rtl.	Yes
beginOfLine	The text is always displayed at the beginning of the line. Therefore, if property ltr is set to textDirection, the text content is left-justified. The text content for value rtl is right-justified.	Yes

displayAsText

Specifies whether the (ToolBar)InputField is to look like a pure Textfeld when the focus is not set on it. When the mouse pointer is moved over the UI element, the UI element is highlighted. When the UI element is clicked on, it behaves like a normal (ToolBar)InputField, and the user can enter data.
explanation

Help text displayed when the help mode is activated.

More information: Explanation Property

This property can be personalized by administrators.

Note

The explanation iproperty is only displayed if a Label exists for the corresponding UI element.

Note the following exception :

The explanation property of an AbstractTableColumn is always displayed. If the UI element appears in a Table, and therefore has no Label, then use a AbstractTableColumn.explanation as a replacement for an explanation for the respective UI element (for example, InputField).

inputPrompt

If an InputField is empty, a short help text for the user is displayed in it. The text disappears as soon as the user enters a value.

Example
length

Width of the InputField in number of characters. This property is overidden 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.

More information: 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 InputField. In this case you can scroll through the text in the InputField by moving the input cursor.

This property can be personalized by administrators.
passwordField

Boolean value that controls the display of entered characters on the screen. If the value is true, the characters entered on the screen are echoed with an asterisk (*). This attribute is used for password InputFields.

Caution
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 theSSL option 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 administrators. In personalization, this property can be assigned the value: true

state

Error status of the interface element. Read the note about the required asterisk for a Label in FormLayout under Truncating Contents in the FormLayout.

This property can be personalized by administrators.

Value	Visualization	Description	Can Be Set Using Personalization
normal		Normal status of the interface element	No
required		The value must be entered. The InputField is displayed with an asterisk. Note This value of the state property is not checked by Web Dynpro Framework. Service functions are still available for checking required entries, see also SAP Note 948753 .	Yes

Value

Visualization

Description

Can Be Set Using Personalization

normal

InputField.state = normal

Normal status of the interface element

required

InputField.state = required

The value must be entered.

The InputField is displayed with an asterisk.

Note

This value of the state property is not checked by Web Dynpro Framework. Service functions are still available for checking required entries, see also SAP Note 948753 Information published on SAP site .

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 administrators.

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 InputField frame. This property must be bound to a context attribute (see Data Binding of UI Element Properties).

Primary Property

Both users and administrators can personalize this property. You can also predefine values; refer to General Information About Methods and Properties of UI Elements.
width

Width of the UI element.

More information: Methods and Properties - General Information.

This property can be personalized by administrators.