NAME

App::Widget::ValidatedTextField - An HTML text field

SYNOPSIS

$name = "first_name";
# official way
use App;
$context = App->context();
$w = $context->widget($name);
# OR ...
$w = $context->widget($name,
   class => "App::Widget::ValidatedTextField",
   size  => 8,                 # from HTML spec
   maxlength => 18,            # from HTML spec
   tabindex => 1,              # from HTML spec
   style => "mystyle",         # from HTML to support CSS
   color => "#6666CC",         # from CSS spec
   font_size => "10px",        # from CSS spec
   border_style => "solid",    # from CSS spec
   border_width => "1px",      # from CSS spec
   border_color => "#6666CC",  # from CSS spec
   padding => "2px",           # from CSS spec
   background_color => "#ccffcc",           # from CSS spec
   font_family => "Verdana, Geneva, Arial", # from CSS spec
   override => 1,              # increase precedence of following options to "override" from "default"
   validate => "date",         # not impl. yet ("date", "time", "datetime", "enum", "number", "integer", ":regexp")
   #autocomplete => \@previous_choices,  # not impl. yet
);

# internal way
use App::Widget::ValidatedTextField;
$w = App::Widget::ValidatedTextField->new($name);

DESCRIPTION

This class is a <input type=text> HTML element.