ui:outputTextArea

Displays the text area as specified by the value attribute.

A ui:outputTextArea component represents text output that is wrapped in an HTML span tag. We recommend using lightning:formattedText instead of ui:outputText.

ui:outputTextArea can be used with ui:inputTextArea, which takes in a multiline text input. To apply Lightning Design System styling, we recommend that you use lightning:textarea instead of ui:inputTextArea.

To display text, you can use an attribute value and bind it to the ui:outputTextArea component. A ui:outputTextArea component displays URLs and email addresses as hyperlinks.

<aura:attribute name="myTextArea" type="String" default="some string"/>
<ui:outputTextArea value="{!v.myTextArea}"/>

The previous example renders the following HTML.

<span>some string</span>

This example shows how you can bind data from the ui:inputTextArea component. To apply Lightning Design System styling, we recommend that you use lightning:textarea instead of ui:inputTextArea.

<aura:component>
     <ui:inputTextArea aura:id="comments" label="Comments"  value="My comments" rows="5"/>
     <ui:button label="Submit" press="{!c.setOutput}"/> 
     
     <div aura:id="msg">
  You entered: <ui:outputTextArea aura:id="oTextarea" value=""/>
 </div>
</aura:component>
({
    setOutput : function(component, event, helper) {
    	var cmpMsg = component.find("msg");
    	$A.util.removeClass(cmpMsg, 'hide');
    	
        var comments = component.find("comments").get("v.value");
        var oTextarea = component.find("oTextarea");
        oTextarea.set("v.value", comments);
    }
})

Attributes

Attribute Name Attribute Type Description Required?
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.
linkify Boolean Indicates if the URLs in the text are set to render as hyperlinks.
value String The text to display. Yes

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.