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#VarFORMFIELD
---+++ FORMFIELD{"fieldname"} -- renders a field in the form attached to some topic
   * Syntax: =%<nop>FORMFIELD{"fieldname"}%=
   * Supported parameters:
     | *Parameter:* | *Description:* | *Default:* |
     | ="fieldname"= | The name of a [[TWikiForms][TWiki form]] field | required |
     | =topic="..."= | Topic where form data is located. May be of the form =Web.<nop>TopicName= | Current topic |
     | =format="..."= | Format string. Variable =$value= expands to the field value, =$title= to the raw field name, =$name= to the field name, =$attributes= to the attributes, =$type= to the form field type, =$size= to the size, and =$definingTopic= to the form definition topic. | ="$value"= |
     | =default="..."= | Text shown when no value is defined for the field | =""= |
     | =alttext="..."= | Text shown when field is not found in the form | =""= |
     | =newline="$br"= | Convert newlines in textarea to other delimiters. Variable =$br= expands to =&lt;br /&gt;= tag, and =$n= to a newline. Other text is encoded based on =encode= parameter. | no conversion |
     | =encode="html"= | Encode special characters into HTML entities. If a FORMFIELD is passed into an HTML form field it should be encoded as ="html"=. Additional encodings available: =encode="quote"=, =encode="moderate"=, =encode="safe"=, =encode="entity"= and =encode="url"=. See [[%IF{"'%INCLUDINGTOPIC%'='TWikiVariables'" then="#"}%VarENCODE][ENCODE]] for details. | =""= (no encoding) |
   * Example: =%<nop>FORMFIELD{"<nop>ProjectName" topic="Projects.<nop>SushiProject" default="(not set)" alttext="<nop>ProjectName field not found"}%= 
   * Example: =&lt;input type="text" name="Address" value="%<nop>FORMFIELD{ "Address" encode="html" }%" /&gt;=
   * Related: [[%IF{"'%INCLUDINGTOPIC%'='TWikiVariables'" then="#"}%VarENCODE][ENCODE]], [[%IF{"'%INCLUDINGTOPIC%'='TWikiVariables'" then="#"}%VarMETASEARCH][METASEARCH]], [[%IF{"'%INCLUDINGTOPIC%'='TWikiVariables'" then="#"}%VarSEARCH][SEARCH]], FormattedSearch, QuerySearch, SearchHelp

Topic revision: r5 - 2011-06-14 - TWikiContributor

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