Text Entry States and Placeholders

ActivePresenter Support Questions
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Summary

I was wondering if there were any ways for text entry objects to have different placeholders depending on their state. (without any kind of “if statement” (selection))

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Hi,

The Text Entry object has a disabled state by default. Besides, you can only change the placeholder of a Text Entry to Rounded Rectangle. Then, you can use the Change Object State action to show the states that you have made.

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Please take a look at the following tutorials for more information.

You can also send a sample project to support@atomisystems.com and describe what you want to do more specifically so we can help.

Regards,

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Summary

Thank you for your response,
I’m sorry, it seems that I was unclear; what I meant by placeholder wasn’t the shape of the text entry, but the default text within the placeholder that disappears when the user clicks on it to type in an answers.

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Summary

I hope this isn’t too much to ask for, but I was wondering if I could please know all the possible attributes for the prez.object(‘onetop’).textNode.setAttribute() function, such as ‘placeholder’. I was also wondering if I could know the other functions for textNode.
Thank you for your help

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Hi,

ActivePresenter doesn’t support setting placeholder for Text Entry from UI, but you can use Javascript instead. You can add the following script to the On Load event of a slide to set a placeholder for a text box:

prez.object('text box name').textNode.placeholder = 'place holder text';

Please refer to this thread for more information:

Kindly note that “textNode” is HTML <input> element. If you want to know more about its attributes and properties, please search for those of HTML.

Regards,