URL input

Create URL inputs in your forms.

URL input

Use the urlInput() function to create URL inputs in your forms. It uses the HTML <input type="url"> element which provides built-in URL validation.

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Basic usage

import { Composer } from "formsmd";

const composer = new Composer({
  id: "my-form"
});

composer.urlInput("website", {
  question: "What is your website's URL?"
});

Generates the following Markdown-like syntax:

#! id = my-form

website = URLInput(
  | question = What is your website's URL?
)

Required

Add the required parameter to make the field mandatory:

composer.urlInput("website", {
  question: "What is your website's URL?",
  required: true
});

Generates the following Markdown-like syntax:

website* = URLInput(
  | question = What is your website's URL?
)

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Function overview

The following is the overview of the function:

urlInput(name: string, params: object)

Arguments

Name	Type	Description
name	string	A unique name for your form field that you'll use to identify the user's response.*
params	object	An object containing all the configuration parameters for your URL input field (see the parameters section below for the full list of options).

*Avoid values for the name argument which may be the names of HTML attributes, such as "name", "role", "id", etc. This is because by default, the form's template string is first sanitized using DOMPurify, and these values may be removed to prevent DOM clobbering.

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Parameters

Shared parameters

These parameters are common to all form fields:

Name	Type	Description
question (required)	string	The main question or label of the form field.
required	true (boolean)	When set, the field becomes required.
description	string	Any extra information that the user may need to fill out the form. Appears right below the question.
fieldSize	"sm"	When set to "sm", the font sizes of the question, description, and answer are made smaller.
labelStyle	"classic"	When set to "classic", the question and description of the form field are made smaller.
subfield	true (boolean)	When set, the question and description of the form field are made smaller. Functionally the same as setting labelStyle to "classic".
disabled	true (boolean)	When set, the input is disabled.
autofocus	true (boolean)	When set, the input will be automatically focused when the parent slide becomes active, or immediately after page load.
id	string	The id attribute of the form field container.
classNames	string[]	The CSS class names of the form field. See the available CSS utility classes.
attrs	Array<{ name: string, value: string }>	Other HTML attributes of the form field. Each attribute has a name and value property.
displayCondition	{ dependencies: string[], condition: string }	Controls when the field is shown. The dependencies lists the fields to watch, and condition is the expression that must be true to show the field. The condition must be a valid Nunjucks expression. See example.

URL input specific parameters

Name	Type	Description
placeholder	string	Sets the placeholder attribute of the input.
maxlength	number	If set, this becomes the maximum number of allowed characters in the input.
pattern	string	If set, the input value must match the given pattern.
value	string	If set, this becomes the default value of the input.

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Examples

URL input with custom placeholder

composer.urlInput("blogUrl", {
  question: "What's your blog URL?",
  description: "Enter the full URL including https://",
  placeholder: "https://myblog.com",
  required: true
});

Generates the following Markdown-like syntax:

blogUrl* = URLInput(
  | question = What's your blog URL?
  | description = Enter the full URL including https://
  | placeholder = https://myblog.com
)

URL input with pattern validation

composer.urlInput("githubProfile", {
  question: "GitHub profile URL",
  description: "Please enter your GitHub profile URL",
  pattern: "https://github\\.com/[\\w-]+",
  required: true
});

Generates the following Markdown-like syntax:

githubProfile* = URLInput(
  | question = GitHub profile URL
  | description = Please enter your GitHub profile URL
  | pattern = https://github\.com/[\w-]+
)

Styled URL input with custom attributes

Add CSS classes and other HTML attributes using the classNames and attrs parameters. Please note, these class names and attributes are added to the <div> or <fieldset> container that contains the actual input field(s).

composer.urlInput("portfolioUrl", {
  question: "Portfolio URL",
  classNames: ["col-6", "xs:col-6"],
  attrs: [
    { name: "style", value: "font-size: 18px;" }
  ]
});

Generates the following Markdown-like syntax:

[.col-6 .xs:col-6 style="font-size: 18px;"]
portfolioUrl = URLInput(
  | question = Portfolio URL
)

Please see the available CSS utility classes.

Conditional display

Conditionally show or hide a URL input field using the displayCondition parameter. It works as follows:

• dependencies lists the fields to watch.

• condition is the expression that must be true to show the field. This must be a valid Nunjucks expression.

For instance, in the example below, the portfolio URL input will only show up if the user indicates they have a portfolio website.

composer.choiceInput("hasPortfolio", {
  question: "Do you have a portfolio website?",
  required: true,
  choices: ["Yes", "No"]
})

composer.urlInput("portfolioUrl", {
  question: "Portfolio website URL",
  displayCondition: {
    dependencies: ["hasPortfolio"],
    condition: "hasPortfolio == 'Yes'"
  }
});

Generates the following Markdown-like syntax:

hasPortfolio* = ChoiceInput(
  | question = Do you have a portfolio website?
  | choices = Yes, No
)

::: [{$ hasPortfolio $}]
{% if hasPortfolio == "Yes" %}
portfolioUrl = URLInput(
  | question = Portfolio website URL
)
{% endif %}
:::