Textarea API

Per-option reference for the Textarea field. For examples and display guidance, see the Textarea guide.

Options are passed to the field declaration in an Avo resource:

# app/avo/resources/post.rb
field :body, as: :textarea, rows: 10

For labels, placeholders, visibility, and other shared settings, see Common field options.

Input size

-> rows

The number of visible rows in the textarea on the New and Edit views. This option does not affect the Show view.

field :body, as: :textarea, rows: 10

• Type: Integer, or a value responding to to_i.
• Default: 5 when omitted or blank (including nil, false, and blank strings).
• Values: Positive integers represent valid HTML row counts.
• Validation: Avo converts nonblank values with to_i without checking positivity. A nonblank value without to_i raises NoMethodError during field initialization.

WARNING

Nonblank strings are converted with Ruby's to_i, not validated as numbers. For example, "10" becomes 10 and "invalid" becomes 0; zero and negative values are passed to the textarea unchanged.