Plain Text Fields

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Plain Text fields give you either a normal text input or a multi-line textarea, where plain text can be entered.

#Settings

Plain Text fields have the following settings:

  • Placeholder Text – The field’s placeholder text, to be displayed if the field has no value yet.
  • Max Length – The maximum number of characters the field can contain.
  • Allow line breaks – Whether or not to allow line breaks in this field.

#The Field

Plain Text fields will either show a normal text input or a multi-line textarea, depending on whether Allow line breaks was checked.

#Development

Calling a Plain Text field in your templates will return the value that was entered in the field.

{% if entry.myFieldHandle %}
  <h3>Article</h3>
  {{ entry.myFieldHandle|markdown }}
{% endif %}