AutoSizeTextarea

A convenient shortcut for looking up an element by ID in the component's Shadow DOM subtree.

Example: if component's template contains a shadow element <button id="foo">, you can use the reference this.$.foo to obtain the corresponding button in the component instance's shadow tree. The $ function is simply a shorthand for getElementById, so this.$.foo is the same as this.shadowRoot.getElementById('foo').

The default state for the component. This can be extended by mixins and classes to provide additional default state.

Returns a reference to the inner standard HTML element.

Determines the minimum number of rows shown. This is similar to the rows attribute on a standard textarea, but because this element can grow, is expressed as a minimum rather than a fixed number.

By default, this property is 1, so when empty, the text area will be a single line tall. That's efficient in terms of the space it consumes, but until the user interacts with the element, they may not realize they can enter multiple lines of text. Setting the property to a value higher than 1 will signal to the user that they can enter multiple lines of a text.

By setting this property, you can also communicate to the user some sense of how much text you're expecting them to provide. For example, on a feedback form, asking the user to enter their feedback in a single-line text box implies you don't really want them to enter much text — even if the text box will grow when they type. By setting this to a value like, say, 10 rows, you can signal that you're fully expecting them to enter more text.

Apply changes to a proposed new state for the component to enforce necessary consistency between state members. See Refining state for details.

Render the component to the DOM.

This method does nothing if the state has not changed since the last render call.

This method invokes all internal render methods. It then invoked componentDidMount (for first render) or componentDidUpdate (for subsequent renders).

Update the component's state by merging the specified changes on top of the existing state. If the component is connected to the document, and the new state has changed, this returns a promise to asynchronously render the component. Otherwise, this returns a resolved promise.

Return true if the component should update.

The default implementation does a shallow check of property values like React's PureComponent. This seems adequate for most web components. You can override this to always return true (like React's base Component class), or to perform more specific, deeper checks for changes in state.

The component's current state. The returned state object is immutable. To update it, invoke setState.

See symbols.contentSlot.

The template copied into the shadow tree of new instances of this element.

The default value of this property is a template that includes an instance the standard element being wrapped, with a <slot> element inside that to pick up the element's light DOM content. For example, if you wrap an <a> element, then the default template will look like:

<template>
  <style>
  :host {
    display: inline-block;
  }
  </style>
  <a id="inner">
    <slot></slot>
  </a>
</template>

The display styling applied to the host will be block for elements that are block elements by default, and inline-block (not inline) for other elements.

If you'd like the template to include other elements, then override this property and return a template of your own. The template should include an instance of the standard HTML element you are wrapping, and the ID of that element should be "inner".

The attributes and properies that should be applied to the component on render. By default, this is an empty plain object. Your mixin or component can extend this to identify the properties to set on the host element or elements in the shadow subtree.

The text currently shown in the textarea.

Note that the text shown in the textarea can also be updated by changing the element's innerHTML/textContent. However, if the value property is explicitly set, that will override the innerHTML/textContent.

Creates a class that wraps a standard HTML element.

Note that the resulting class is a subclass of WrappedStandardElement, not the standard class being wrapped. E.g., if you call WrappedStandardElement.wrap('a'), you will get a class whose shadow tree will include an anchor element, but the class will not inherit from HTMLAnchorElement.