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  • Access & onboarding
    • Sign in
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    • Email verification
    • Invitation acceptance
    • Account creation
    • Account security
    • Workspace onboarding
    • Branched onboarding
  • Workspace & organization
    • Workspace dashboard
    • Workspace settings
    • Workspace users
    • Team management
    • API credentials
    • Organization overview
    • Organization settings
    • Team activity
    • Team member
  • Billing & commerce
    • Subscription billing
    • Checkout and payment
    • Checkout results
  • Data & operations
    • Data resource overview
    • Data resource activity
    • Data resource settings
    • Product resource lifecycle
    • API webhooks
    • Integration management
    • File uploads
    • Activity and audit log
  • Product & support
    • Changelog
    • Help center
    • System status and errors
  • Marketing
    • Product landing
    • Public pricing
    • Product features
    • Public contact
  • Complete applications
    • Sidebar operations application
    • Topbar media application
    • Hybrid account application

Textarea

Multiline text controls with native values, constraints, and availability state.

Source
app/components/nitro_kit/textarea.rb
API
NitroKit::Textarea.new(id:, name:, value:, rows:, wrap:)

Values and constraints

Textarea values remain text content while native sizing and length constraints stay explicit.

Value matrix

Default
Empty
Constrained
Viewport640 px · sm
Rubytest/dummy/app/components/gallery/components/textarea_page.rb
sample("Default", slug: "default") do
  render NitroKit::Textarea.new(
    id: "gallery-textarea-default",
    aria: { label: "Profile bio" },
    name: "profile[bio]",
    value: "Building reliable interfaces for analytical software.",
    rows: 4
  )
end
sample("Empty", slug: "empty") do
  render NitroKit::Textarea.new(
    id: "gallery-textarea-empty",
    aria: { label: "Invitation message" },
    name: "invitation[message]",
    value: "",
    placeholder: "Add an optional welcome message"
  )
end
sample("Constrained", slug: "constrained") do
  render NitroKit::Textarea.new(
    id: "gallery-textarea-constrained",
    aria: { label: "Incident summary" },
    name: "incident[summary]",
    value: "Customer impact was limited to delayed notifications.",
    required: true,
    rows: 6,
    cols: 48,
    minlength: 20,
    maxlength: 280,
    wrap: :hard
  )
end

Availability and pressure

Read-only, disabled, long, and invalid content preserve browser and accessibility semantics.

State matrix

Read only
Disabled
Long content
Viewport640 px · sm
Rubytest/dummy/app/components/gallery/components/textarea_page.rb
sample("Read only", slug: "readonly") do
  render NitroKit::Textarea.new(
    id: "gallery-textarea-readonly",
    aria: { label: "Audit summary" },
    name: "audit[summary]",
    value: "Export completed by Ada Lovelace on July 13, 2026.",
    readonly: true
  )
end
sample("Disabled", slug: "disabled") do
  render NitroKit::Textarea.new(
    id: "gallery-textarea-disabled",
    aria: { label: "Legacy notes" },
    name: "legacy[notes]",
    value: "Legacy notes cannot be edited.",
    disabled: true
  )
end
sample("Long content", slug: "long") do
  render NitroKit::Textarea.new(
    id: "gallery-textarea-long",
    aria: { label: "Retention policy" },
    name: "workspace[retention_policy]",
    value: "Workspace records remain available throughout the current billing period. " \
      "Audit exports preserve their original timestamps and actor identifiers across plan changes.",
    rows: 8,
    wrap: :soft
  )
end

Invalid field

Keep the biography under 280 characters.
  • Bio is too long (maximum is 280 characters)
Viewport640 px · sm
Rubytest/dummy/app/components/gallery/components/textarea_page.rb
invalid_profile = Gallery::FormExamples.profile(:invalid)

render NitroKit::Field.new(
  nil,
  :bio,
  as: :textarea,
  id: "gallery-textarea-invalid",
  name: "profile[bio]",
  value: invalid_profile.bio,
  label: "Biography",
  description: "Keep the biography under 280 characters.",
  errors: invalid_profile.errors.full_messages_for(:bio),
  required: true,
  maxlength: 280
)

Rails form builder

Model values and validation errors flow through FormBuilder into the direct textarea component.

Invalid profile biography

A short biography shown to workspace members.
  • Bio is too long (maximum is 280 characters)
Viewport640 px · sm
Rubytest/dummy/app/components/gallery/components/textarea_page.rb
profile = Gallery::FormExamples.profile(:invalid)

form_with(
  model: profile,
  scope: :profile,
  url: "#profile-biography",
  builder: NitroKit::FormBuilder,
  id: "gallery-textarea-profile-form"
) do |form|
  form.group do
    form.field(
      :bio,
      as: :textarea,
      id: "gallery-textarea-profile-bio",
      description: "A short biography shown to workspace members.",
      required: true,
      maxlength: 280
    )
    form.submit("Save biography", id: "gallery-textarea-profile-save")
  end
end

Component contract

Constructor options, rendered root, closed vocabularies, and compound boundary for this component, exactly as shipped.

docs/component_contracts.md · NitroKit::Textarea

Constructor-specific options
  • id: nil, name: nil, value: nil, placeholder: nil, disabled: false, readonly: false, required: false, autocomplete: nil, rows: nil, cols: nil, minlength: nil, maxlength: nil, wrap: nil
Root and closed vocabulary
native textarea[data-nk=textarea]; wraps soft hard off
Contract
Every owned attribute is a keyword; passing one through html: raises and names the keyword. Rows and columns must be positive; lengths must be non-negative; minimum length cannot exceed maximum. Read-only controls have their own muted treatment.

Relevant patterns

Application conventions this component belongs to. Each summary is the leading section of its pattern document.

docs/patterns/resource_form.md

Resource form

  • One model-backed Phlex component renders initial and invalid states.
  • Rails owns names, values, and errors; Nitro owns presentation.
  • Invalid mutations render the same model with 422; success redirects with 303.
  • Use one primary submit: the shell toolbar owns it, or a standalone form keeps it inside form.group.
  • Wrap the form in a Turbo Frame only when it needs an independent lifecycle.

System rules for coding agents

Instructions for coding agents, repeated on every component page so one fetched page has enough context. Humans can usually skip this section.

test/dummy/app/components/gallery/agent_rules.rb

View agent instructions
  • Nitro Kit 2.0 is a gem-owned, Phlex-only UI system for Rails. Render components directly: render NitroKit::Button.new("Save", variant: :primary).
  • Compose Nitro components inside application-owned Phlex classes. Public initializers and declared slots are the component API; private methods are not.
  • Public options are explicit keywords, and enumerated options are closed vocabularies. Invalid names or values raise ArgumentError; this component's accepted options are in the contract above.
  • Pass native attributes through their typed boundary: html: for HTML, aria: for ARIA, and data: for application data. class and style are forbidden, including inside html:.
  • Nitro owns NitroKit::Component::RESERVED_DATA_ATTRIBUTES: data-nk, data-slot, data-variant, data-size, data-nk-escape, data-enhanced, data-state, data-disabled, data-required, data-orientation, data-presentation, data-placement, data-layout, data-side, data-field-type, data-dir, data-gap, data-align, data-justify, data-wrap, data-cols, data-mode, data-key. Do not pass them through data:. data-action, data-controller are additive and compose with Nitro behavior.
  • If an integration truly requires a class, use desperately_need_a_class:. It requires a non-blank String and marks the exception with data-nk-escape="class".
  • Every root emits data-nk; owned parts emit component-qualified data-slot values such as field-control or card-title. Select on those attributes, never on classes.
  • Customize components with documented --nk-* custom properties in an application stylesheet. Variables beginning with --_nk-* are private component mechanics.
  • Use NitroKit::Flex and NitroKit::Grid for layout. Parents own external placement and available width; components own their intrinsic geometry.
  • Preserve native elements and accessibility semantics. State is exposed through native semantics and ARIA first, and through data-state when styling or behavior also needs it.