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title: anura-text
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markdown: 'https://doc.brix.ch/anura/webcomponents/components/text.md'
lang: en
date: '2026-10-26'
description: 'Technical documentation for brix:anura webcomponents – Software developed by brix'
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# anura-text

#### Table of Contents

- [Attributes](#attributes)
- [Events](#events)
- [Parts](#parts)

```html
<anura-text adapter="some-adapter" source="123"></anura-text>
```

A very simple text search field (it mostly exists to look the same way [anura-select](https://doc.brix.ch/anura/webcomponents/components/select) & co look)

![Screenshot of anura-text](https://doc.brix.ch/user/pages/03.anura/01.webcomponents/02.components/text/anura-text.png)

## Attributes

### adapter

> **required: yes**, live: no, default: -

With which adapter to talk to (to load the values from)

`<anura-text adapter="#my-adapter"></anura-text>`

### source

> **required: yes**, live: on-load, default: -

What metadata field to query in order to get the title (and sumbit the value). The value type will depend on the adapter that you're using (usually an ID or a UUID)

`<anura-text source="description"></anura-text>`

### value

> required: no, live: set by component, default: -

Can be used to set an initial value, but will only be written to by the component afterwards.

### title

> required: no, live: on-load, default: name of the metadata field

Override the title attribute with your own.

`<anura-text title="Description"></anura-text>`

### placeholder

> required: no, live: on-load, default: name of the metadata field

Override the placeholder attribute with your own.

`<anura-text placeholder="Search something"></anura-text>`

### type

> required: no, live: set by component, default: -

The type of field that should be affected. This will be set by your adapter and is specific to the implementation. Don't touch this.

### state

> required: no, live: on-load, default: true

Whether the text search should maintain its state. This will use the components `id` to differentiate itself from other components. If you don't provide an ID, a hash of the component will be used. Set it to `false` to not keep any state at all.

`<anura-text state="false"></anura-text>`

### drill-down

> required: no, live: on-load, default: false

When enabled, these text values will become clickable in `<anura-details>`, whereafter this field will be filled with said text value, and trigger a search. Basically, this imitates the behaviour of `<anura-select>` for drill-down searches, but for text fields. It's off by default, as it makes litte sense for things like a description.

`<anura-text drill-down></anura-text>`

## Events

### change

> standard change event

Fired when the user changes the value of the input field

## Parts

```html
<input part="text-value" >
<button part="text-button text-clear">
  <anura-icon part="text-icon text-icon-clear"></anura-icon>
</button>
```

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