17.16.33 textInput

This element specifies a set of properties which shall be associated with the parent FORMTEXT text box form field (17.16.5.22) within the document.

If the parent form field is not a text box (i.e. its field code does not have a value of FORMTEXT), then these properties can be ignored.

[Example: Consider the following WordprocessingML fragment for the properties of a text box form field:

<w:ffData>
  <w:textInput>
    <w:maxLength w:val="4" />
    …
    <w:type w:val="number" />
  </w:textInput>
</w:ffData>

The textInput element specifies that it contains a set of properties for the parent text box form field. In this case, these properties specify that the drop-down list must contain no more than four characters via the maxLength element (17.16.26), and that its contents must contain a number via the type element (17.16.34). end example]

[Note: The W3C XML Schema definition of this element’s content model (CT_FFTextInput) is located in A.1. end note]