<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <!-- textinput.qdoc --> <title>Qt Quick Text Input Handling and Validators | Qt Quick 5.12.6</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style/offline-simple.css" /> <script type="text/javascript"> document.getElementsByTagName("link").item(0).setAttribute("href", "style/offline.css"); // loading style sheet breaks anchors that were jumped to before // so force jumping to anchor again setTimeout(function() { var anchor = location.hash; // need to jump to different anchor first (e.g. none) location.hash = "#"; setTimeout(function() { location.hash = anchor; }, 0); }, 0); </script> </head> <body> <div class="header" id="qtdocheader"> <div class="main"> <div class="main-rounded"> <div class="navigationbar"> <table><tr> <td >Qt 5.12</td><td ><a href="qtquick-index.html">Qt Quick</a></td><td >Qt Quick Text Input Handling and Validators</td></tr></table><table class="buildversion"><tr> <td id="buildversion" width="100%" align="right"><a href="qtquick-index.html">Qt 5.12.6 Reference Documentation</a></td> </tr></table> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="line"> <div class="content mainContent"> <div class="sidebar"> <div class="toc"> <h3><a name="toc">Contents</a></h3> <ul> <li class="level1"><a href="#text-visual-types">Text Visual Types</a></li> <li class="level1"><a href="#validating-input-text">Validating Input Text</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="sidebar-content" id="sidebar-content"></div></div> <h1 class="title">Qt Quick Text Input Handling and Validators</h1> <span class="subtitle"></span> <!-- $$$qtquick-input-textinput.html-description --> <div class="descr"> <a name="details"></a> <a name="text-visual-types"></a> <h2 id="text-visual-types">Text Visual Types</h2> <p>Qt Quick provides several types to display text onto the screen. The <a href="qml-qtquick-text.html">Text</a> type will display formatted text onto the screen, the <a href="qml-qtquick-textedit.html">TextEdit</a> type will place a multiline line edit onto the screen, and the <a href="qml-qtquick-textinput.html">TextInput</a> will place a single editable line field onto the screen.</p> <p>To learn more about their specific features and properties, visit their respective documentation.</p> <a name="validating-input-text"></a> <h2 id="validating-input-text">Validating Input Text</h2> <p>The <i>validator</i> types enforce the type and format of <a href="qml-qtquick-textinput.html">TextInput</a> objects.</p> <div class="table"><table class="annotated"> <tr class="odd topAlign"><td class="tblName"><p><a href="qtquick-text-validator.html">Qt Quick Text Validators</a></p></td><td class="tblDescr"><p>Types that validate text input</p></td></tr> </table></div> <pre class="qml"> Column { spacing: 10 Text { text: "Enter a value from 0 to 2000" } TextInput { focus: true validator: IntValidator { bottom:0; top: 2000} } } </pre> <p>The validator types bind to <code>TextInput</code>'s <code>validator</code> property.</p> <pre class="qml"> Column { spacing: 10 Text { text: "Which basket?" } TextInput { focus: true validator: RegExpValidator { regExp: /fruit basket/ } } } </pre> <p>The regular expression in the snippet will only allow the inputted text to be <code>fruit basket</code>.</p> <p>Note that QML parses JavaScript regular expressions, while Qt's QRegExp class' regular expressions are based on Perl regular expressions.</p> </div> <!-- @@@qtquick-input-textinput.html --> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer"> <p> <acronym title="Copyright">©</acronym> 2019 The Qt Company Ltd. Documentation contributions included herein are the copyrights of their respective owners.<br/> The documentation provided herein is licensed under the terms of the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html">GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3</a> as published by the Free Software Foundation.<br/> Qt and respective logos are trademarks of The Qt Company Ltd. in Finland and/or other countries worldwide. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. </p> </div> </body> </html>