A foundational component for inputting text into the app via a keyboard. Props provide configurability for several features, such as auto-correction, auto-capitalization, placeholder text, and different keyboard types, such as a numeric keypad.

The most basic use case is to plop down a TextInput and subscribe to the onChangeText events to read the user input. There are also other events, such as onSubmitEditing and onFocus that can be subscribed to. A minimal example:

import React from 'react';
import {StyleSheet, TextInput} from 'react-native';
import {SafeAreaView, SafeAreaProvider} from 'react-native-safe-area-context';

const TextInputExample = () => {
  const [text, onChangeText] = React.useState('Useless Text');
  const [number, onChangeNumber] = React.useState('');

  return (
    <SafeAreaProvider>
      <SafeAreaView>
        <TextInput
          style={styles.input}
          onChangeText={onChangeText}
          value={text}
        />
        <TextInput
          style={styles.input}
          onChangeText={onChangeNumber}
          value={number}
          placeholder="useless placeholder"
          keyboardType="numeric"
        />
      </SafeAreaView>
    </SafeAreaProvider>
  );
};

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  input: {
    height: 40,
    margin: 12,
    borderWidth: 1,
    padding: 10,
  },
});

export default TextInputExample;

Two methods exposed via the native element are .focus() and .blur() that will focus or blur the TextInput programmatically.

Note that some props are only available with multiline={true/false}. Additionally, border styles that apply to only one side of the element (e.g., borderBottomColor, borderLeftWidth, etc.) will not be applied if multiline=true. To achieve the same effect, you can wrap your TextInput in a View:

import React from 'react';
import {TextInput, StyleSheet} from 'react-native';
import {SafeAreaView, SafeAreaProvider} from 'react-native-safe-area-context';

const MultilineTextInputExample = () => {
  const [value, onChangeText] = React.useState('Useless Multiline Placeholder');

  // If you type something in the text box that is a color,
  // the background will change to that color.
  return (
    <SafeAreaProvider>
      <SafeAreaView
        style={{
          flex: 1,
          backgroundColor: value.toLowerCase(),
        }}>
        <TextInput
          editable
          multiline
          numberOfLines={4}
          maxLength={40}
          onChangeText={text => onChangeText(text)}
          value={value}
          style={styles.textInput}
        />
      </SafeAreaView>
    </SafeAreaProvider>
  );
};

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  textInput: {
    padding: 10,
    borderColor: '#000',
    borderWidth: 1,
    margin: 12,
  },
});

export default MultilineTextInputExample;

TextInput has a border at the bottom of its view by default. This border has its padding set by the background image provided by the system, and it cannot be changed. Solutions to avoid this are to either not set height explicitly, in which case the system will take care of displaying the border in the correct position, or to not display the border by setting underlineColorAndroid to transparent.

Note that on Android performing text selection in an input can change the app's activity windowSoftInputMode param to adjustResize. This may cause issues with components that have position: 'absolute' while the keyboard is active. To avoid this behavior either specify windowSoftInputMode in AndroidManifest.xml ( https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html ) or control this param programmatically with native code.

Reference

Props

View Props

Inherits View Props.

allowFontScaling

Specifies whether fonts should scale to respect Text Size accessibility settings. The default is true.

autoCapitalize

Tells TextInput to automatically capitalize certain characters. This property is not supported by some keyboard types such as name-phone-pad.

• characters: all characters.
• words: first letter of each word.
• sentences: first letter of each sentence (default).
• none: don't auto capitalize anything.

autoComplete

Specifies autocomplete hints for the system, so it can provide autofill. On Android, the system will always attempt to offer autofill by using heuristics to identify the type of content. To disable autocomplete, set autoComplete to off.

The following values work across platforms:

• additional-name
• address-line1
• address-line2
• birthdate-day (iOS 17+)
• birthdate-full (iOS 17+)
• birthdate-month (iOS 17+)
• birthdate-year (iOS 17+)
• cc-csc (iOS 17+)
• cc-exp (iOS 17+)
• cc-exp-day (iOS 17+)
• cc-exp-month (iOS 17+)
• cc-exp-year (iOS 17+)
• cc-number
• country
• current-password
• email
• family-name
• given-name
• honorific-prefix
• honorific-suffix
• name
• new-password
• off
• one-time-code
• postal-code
• street-address
• tel
• username

The following values work on iOS only:

• cc-family-name (iOS 17+)
• cc-given-name (iOS 17+)
• cc-middle-name (iOS 17+)
• cc-name (iOS 17+)
• cc-type (iOS 17+)
• nickname
• organization
• organization-title
• url

The following values work on Android only:

• gender
• name-family
• name-given
• name-middle
• name-middle-initial
• name-prefix
• name-suffix
• password
• password-new
• postal-address
• postal-address-country
• postal-address-extended
• postal-address-extended-postal-code
• postal-address-locality
• postal-address-region
• sms-otp
• tel-country-code
• tel-device
• tel-national
• username-new

autoCorrect

If false, disables auto-correct. The default value is true.

autoFocus

If true, focuses the input. The default value is false.

🗑️ blurOnSubmit

:::warning Deprecated Note that submitBehavior now takes the place of blurOnSubmit and will override any behavior defined by blurOnSubmit. See submitBehavior. :::

If true, the text field will blur when submitted. The default value is true for single-line fields and false for multiline fields. Note that for multiline fields, setting blurOnSubmit to true means that pressing return will blur the field and trigger the onSubmitEditing event instead of inserting a newline into the field.

caretHidden

If true, caret is hidden. The default value is false.

clearButtonMode <div className="label ios">iOS</div>

When the clear button should appear on the right side of the text view. This property is supported only for single-line TextInput component. The default value is never.

clearTextOnFocus <div className="label ios">iOS</div>

If true, clears the text field automatically when editing begins.

contextMenuHidden

If true, context menu is hidden. The default value is false.

dataDetectorTypes <div className="label ios">iOS</div>

Determines the types of data converted to clickable URLs in the text input. Only valid if multiline={true} and editable={false}. By default no data types are detected.

You can provide one type or an array of many types.

Possible values for dataDetectorTypes are:

• 'phoneNumber'
• 'link'
• 'address'
• 'calendarEvent'
• 'none'
• 'all'

defaultValue

Provides an initial value that will change when the user starts typing. Useful for use-cases where you do not want to deal with listening to events and updating the value prop to keep the controlled state in sync.

disableKeyboardShortcuts <div className="label ios">iOS</div>

If true, the keyboard shortcuts (undo/redo and copy buttons) are disabled.

cursorColor <div className="label android">Android</div>

When provided it will set the color of the cursor (or "caret") in the component. Unlike the behavior of selectionColor the cursor color will be set independently from the color of the text selection box.

disableFullscreenUI <div className="label android">Android</div>

When false, if there is a small amount of space available around a text input (e.g. landscape orientation on a phone), the OS may choose to have the user edit the text inside of a full screen text input mode. When true, this feature is disabled and users will always edit the text directly inside of the text input. Defaults to false.

editable

If false, text is not editable. The default value is true.

enablesReturnKeyAutomatically <div className="label ios">iOS</div>

If true, the keyboard disables the return key when there is no text and automatically enables it when there is text. The default value is false.

enterKeyHint

Determines what text should be shown to the return key. Has precedence over the returnKeyType prop.

The following values work across platforms:

• done
• next
• search
• send
• go

Android Only

The following values work on Android only:

• previous

iOS Only

The following values work on iOS only:

• enter

importantForAutofill <div className="label android">Android</div>

Tells the operating system whether the individual fields in your app should be included in a view structure for autofill purposes on Android API Level 26+. Possible values are auto, no, noExcludeDescendants, yes, and yesExcludeDescendants. The default value is auto.

• auto: Let the Android System use its heuristics to determine if the view is important for autofill.
• no: This view isn't important for autofill.
• noExcludeDescendants: This view and its children aren't important for autofill.
• yes: This view is important for autofill.
• yesExcludeDescendants: This view is important for autofill, but its children aren't important for autofill.

inlineImageLeft <div className="label android">Android</div>

If defined, the provided image resource will be rendered on the left. The image resource must be inside /android/app/src/main/res/drawable and referenced like

<TextInput
 inlineImageLeft='search_icon'
/>

inlineImagePadding <div className="label android">Android</div>

Padding between the inline image, if any, and the text input itself.

inputAccessoryViewID <div className="label ios">iOS</div>

An optional identifier which links a custom InputAccessoryView to this text input. The InputAccessoryView is rendered above the keyboard when this text input is focused.

inputAccessoryViewButtonLabel <div className="label ios">iOS</div>

An optional label that overrides the default InputAccessoryView button label.

By default, the default button label is not localized. Use this property to provide a localized version.

inputMode

Works like the inputmode attribute in HTML, it determines which keyboard to open, e.g. numeric and has precedence over keyboardType.

Support the following values:

• none
• text
• decimal
• numeric
• tel
• search
• email
• url

keyboardAppearance <div className="label ios">iOS</div>

Determines the color of the keyboard.

keyboardType

Determines which keyboard to open, e.g.numeric.

See screenshots of all the types here.

The following values work across platforms:

• default
• number-pad
• decimal-pad
• numeric
• email-address
• phone-pad
• url

iOS Only

The following values work on iOS only:

• ascii-capable
• numbers-and-punctuation
• name-phone-pad
• twitter
• web-search

Android Only

The following values work on Android only:

• visible-password

lineBreakStrategyIOS <div className="label ios">iOS</div>

Set line break strategy on iOS 14+. Possible values are none, standard, hangul-word and push-out.

lineBreakModeIOS <div className="label ios">iOS</div>

Set line break mode on iOS. Possible values are wordWrapping, char, clip, head, middle and tail.

maxFontSizeMultiplier

Specifies largest possible scale a font can reach when allowFontScaling is enabled. Possible values:

• null/undefined (default): inherit from the parent node or the global default (0)
• 0: no max, ignore parent/global default
• >= 1: sets the maxFontSizeMultiplier of this node to this value

maxLength

Limits the maximum number of characters that can be entered. Use this instead of implementing the logic in JS to avoid flicker.

multiline

If true, the text input can be multiple lines. The default value is false.

:::note It is important to note that this aligns the text to the top on iOS, and centers it on Android. Use with textAlignVertical set to top for the same behavior in both platforms. :::

numberOfLines

:::note numberOfLines on iOS is only available on the New Architecture :::

Sets the maximum number of lines for a TextInput. Use it with multiline set to true to be able to fill the lines.

onBlur

Callback that is called when the text input is blurred.

:::note If you are attempting to access the text value from nativeEvent keep in mind that the resulting value you get can be undefined which can cause unintended errors. If you are trying to find the last value of TextInput, you can use the onEndEditing event, which is fired upon completion of editing. :::

onChange

Callback that is called when the text input's text changes.

onChangeText

Callback that is called when the text input's text changes. Changed text is passed as a single string argument to the callback handler.

onContentSizeChange

Callback that is called when the text input's content size changes.

Only called for multiline text inputs.

onEndEditing

Callback that is called when text input ends.

onPressIn

Callback that is called when a touch is engaged.

onPressOut

Callback that is called when a touch is released.

onFocus

Callback that is called when the text input is focused.

onKeyPress

Callback that is called when a key is pressed. This will be called with object where keyValue is 'Enter' or 'Backspace' for respective keys and the typed-in character otherwise including ' ' for space. Fires before onChange callbacks. Note: on Android only the inputs from soft keyboard are handled, not the hardware keyboard inputs.

onLayout

Invoked on mount and on layout changes.

onScroll

Invoked on content scroll. May also contain other properties from ScrollEvent but on Android contentSize is not provided for performance reasons.

onSelectionChange

Callback that is called when the text input selection is changed.

onSubmitEditing

Callback that is called when the text input's submit button is pressed.

Note that on iOS this method isn't called when using keyboardType="phone-pad".

placeholder

The string that will be rendered before text input has been entered.

placeholderTextColor

The text color of the placeholder string.

readOnly

If true, text is not editable. The default value is false.

returnKeyLabel <div className="label android">Android</div>

Sets the return key to the label. Use it instead of returnKeyType.

returnKeyType

Determines how the return key should look. On Android you can also use returnKeyLabel.

Cross platform

The following values work across platforms:

• done
• go
• next
• search
• send

Android Only

The following values work on Android only:

• none
• previous

iOS Only

The following values work on iOS only:

• default
• emergency-call
• google
• join
• route
• yahoo

rejectResponderTermination <div className="label ios">iOS</div>

If true, allows TextInput to pass touch events to the parent component. This allows components such as SwipeableListView to be swipeable from the TextInput on iOS, as is the case on Android by default. If false, TextInput always asks to handle the input (except when disabled). The default value is true.

rows <div className="label android">Android</div>

Sets the number of lines for a TextInput. Use it with multiline set to true to be able to fill the lines.

scrollEnabled <div className="label ios">iOS</div>

If false, scrolling of the text view will be disabled. The default value is true. Only works with multiline={true}.

secureTextEntry

If true, the text input obscures the text entered so that sensitive text like passwords stay secure. The default value is false. Does not work with multiline={true}.

selection

The start and end of the text input's selection. Set start and end to the same value to position the cursor.

selectionColor

The highlight, selection handle and cursor color of the text input.

selectionHandleColor <div className="label android">Android</div>

Sets the color of the selection handle. Unlike selectionColor, it allows the selection handle color to be customized independently of the selection's color.

selectTextOnFocus

If true, all text will automatically be selected on focus.

showSoftInputOnFocus

When false, it will prevent the soft keyboard from showing when the field is focused. The default value is true.

smartInsertDelete <div className="label ios">iOS</div>

If false, the iOS system will not insert an extra space after a paste operation neither delete one or two spaces after a cut or delete operation.

spellCheck <div className="label ios">iOS</div>

If false, disables spell-check style (i.e. red underlines). The default value is inherited from autoCorrect.

submitBehavior

When the return key is pressed,

For single line inputs:

• 'newline' defaults to 'blurAndSubmit'
• undefined defaults to 'blurAndSubmit'

For multiline inputs:

• 'newline' adds a newline
• undefined defaults to 'newline'

For both single line and multiline inputs:

• 'submit' will only send a submit event and not blur the input
• 'blurAndSubmit' will both blur the input and send a submit event

textAlign

Align the input text to the left, center, or right sides of the input field.

Possible values for textAlign are:

• left
• center
• right

textContentType <div className="label ios">iOS</div>

Give the keyboard and the system information about the expected semantic meaning for the content that users enter.

:::note autoComplete, provides the same functionality and is available for all platforms. You can use Platform.select for differing platform behaviors.

Avoid using both textContentType and autoComplete. For backwards compatibility, textContentType takes precedence when both properties are set. :::

You can set textContentType to username or password to enable autofill of login details from the device keychain.

newPassword can be used to indicate a new password input the user may want to save in the keychain, and oneTimeCode can be used to indicate that a field can be autofilled by a code arriving in an SMS.

To disable autofill, set textContentType to none.

Possible values for textContentType are:

• none
• addressCity
• addressCityAndState
• addressState
• birthdate (iOS 17+)
• birthdateDay (iOS 17+)
• birthdateMonth (iOS 17+)
• birthdateYear (iOS 17+)
• countryName
• creditCardExpiration (iOS 17+)
• creditCardExpirationMonth (iOS 17+)
• creditCardExpirationYear (iOS 17+)
• creditCardFamilyName (iOS 17+)
• creditCardGivenName (iOS 17+)
• creditCardMiddleName (iOS 17+)
• creditCardName (iOS 17+)
• creditCardNumber
• creditCardSecurityCode (iOS 17+)
• creditCardType (iOS 17+)
• emailAddress
• familyName
• fullStreetAddress
• givenName
• jobTitle
• location
• middleName
• name
• namePrefix
• nameSuffix
• newPassword
• nickname
• oneTimeCode
• organizationName
• password
• postalCode
• streetAddressLine1
• streetAddressLine2
• sublocality
• telephoneNumber
• URL
• username

passwordRules <div className="label ios">iOS</div>

When using textContentType as newPassword on iOS we can let the OS know the minimum requirements of the password so that it can generate one that will satisfy them. In order to create a valid string for PasswordRules take a look to the Apple Docs.

:::tip If passwords generation dialog doesn't appear please make sure that:

• AutoFill is enabled: Settings → Passwords & Accounts → toggle "On" the AutoFill Passwords,
• iCloud Keychain is used: Settings → Apple ID → iCloud → Keychain → toggle "On" the iCloud Keychain. :::

style

Note that not all Text styles are supported, an incomplete list of what is not supported includes:

• borderLeftWidth
• borderTopWidth
• borderRightWidth
• borderBottomWidth
• borderTopLeftRadius
• borderTopRightRadius
• borderBottomRightRadius
• borderBottomLeftRadius

Styles

textBreakStrategy <div className="label android">Android</div>

Set text break strategy on Android API Level 23+, possible values are simple, highQuality, balanced The default value is highQuality.

underlineColorAndroid <div className="label android">Android</div>

The color of the TextInput underline.

value

The value to show for the text input. TextInput is a controlled component, which means the native value will be forced to match this value prop if provided. For most uses, this works great, but in some cases this may cause flickering - one common cause is preventing edits by keeping value the same. In addition to setting the same value, either set editable={false}, or set/update maxLength to prevent unwanted edits without flicker.

Methods

.focus()

focus();

Makes the native input request focus.

.blur()

blur();

Makes the native input lose focus.

clear()

clear();

Removes all text from the TextInput.

isFocused()

isFocused(): boolean;

Returns true if the input is currently focused; false otherwise.

Known issues

• react-native#19096: Doesn't support Android's onKeyPreIme.
• react-native#19366: Calling .focus() after closing Android's keyboard via back button doesn't bring keyboard up again.
• react-native#26799: Doesn't support Android's secureTextEntry when keyboardType="email-address" or keyboardType="phone-pad".