Hi There. I searched a bit but could not find any useful answer yet. I'd like to get a text entry area in DB, in which I could put some content using any copy/paste, or get some pre-populated content which might be edited before sending over in the workflow. Kind of text I would like to paste is a…

Maybe this topic will help [image] Textbox/Textarea, value to msg.payload Dashboard A simple example using ng-model to send the new value. The text is sent using ng-blur, when focus is removed from textarea Example flow. [{"id":"b27417c585ab35ad","type":"inject","z":"c3…

Nice ! will give it a try. Thanks a lot

Hi, I tried this and looks close to what I want to achieve, thanks for that. From waht I could see, it will send the payload as soon as we change something in the box. What would be the best way to edit text and then have some kind of Enter/validate button once edit is done, to send the content as…

Store the text value in flow or global context variable using a change node. Add a ui-button node. Wire that too another change node to grab the stored context value and put it into payload.

You could also add a button node, then join the two nodes as key value object using topic on each node with a count 2 and ever subsequent checked. After join add a switch node to only pass the button topic on. You would then get an object containing the latest textarea output and the button output. …

Thanks to oyu both, I'll test that . Jerome

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Textbox/Textarea, value to msg.payload Dashboard	2	295	8 October 2023
Enable always changing "text input" node Dashboard	12	4833	28 July 2018
Node Red textarea with template node" No msg.payload input possible after changing content of textarea" Dashboard	3	231	12 February 2023
[RESOLVED] Clear Text Input Field after Sending Dashboard	4	5829	6 September 2018
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Multi-lines text-input area

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