Textarea

Used to enter free form text that spans over multiple lines of text.

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Published: October 30, 2025
Updated: October 31, 2025

Anatomy

textarea-anatomy

Element

Description

Optional?

1. Field label

Mandatory textual label used to describe the form field to guide users in filling it.

No

2. Required or optional marker

Textual label used to denote if a field is required or optional. Marker’s copy is not changeable.

Yes

3. Popover trigger

Used to display a Popover with more content explaining the context of a field. Used when Helper text is not sufficient.

Yes

4. Helper text

Additional description helping users provide the right input, if the field label is insufficient.

Yes

5. Field

Input element that allows users to write content with optional value or placeholder.

No

6. Form Validation

Icon and text used when validating user form input to provide advice on fixing input errors and confirmation when they are addressed.

Yes


Variants

Variants contain different versions of the component depending on specific properties, such as state, size, color, optional iconography, etc.

Textarea
Textarea
state disabled validation neutral
Textarea
Textarea
state focus validation neutral
Textarea
Textarea
state rest validation error
Textarea
Textarea
state read-only validation neutral
Textarea
Textarea
state rest validation neutral
Textarea
Property Values Default
state Variant rest | focus | disabled | read-only rest
validation Variant neutral | error neutral

Component dependencies

This component is internally dependent on the following form sub-components:

Figma

Code

formElement.labelGroup

Legend

formElement.validation

InputError

 

InputLabel

 

FormDescription

Code sub-components

Refer to the code documentation for further information.

Figma sub-components

formElement.labelGroup
formElement.labelGroup
isDisabled false
formElement.labelGroup
formElement.labelGroup
isDisabled true
formElement.labelGroup
Property Values Default
↳ ✏️ defaultText Text string (default)
hasDefaultMarker Boolean true | false false
popover Boolean true | false false
✏️ fieldLabel Text string Field label
hasRequiredMarker Boolean true | false false
hasOptionalMarker Boolean true | false true
↳ ✏️ helperText Text string Optional helper text
helperText Boolean true | false false
↳ helperLink Boolean true | false false
isDisabled Variant false | true false

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