Programmatically created Textarea is not mirrored

[ahmedasaleh]

Using the test_Textarea.html file to test the BIDI support for the Textarea, it found that dijit.form.Textarea is not mirrored when dir is specified on widget level.

<textarea id="programmatic" dir="rtl"></textarea>

<script type="text/javascript">
// See if we can make a widget in script
	dojo.addOnLoad(function(){
	programmaticTextarea = new dijit.form.Textarea({
					id: "programmatic",
					name: "programmaticTextArea",
					cols: "60",
					value: "created programatically with custom border, padding, margin",
					style: "border:5px solidgray;padding:11px;margin:7px;"
					}, "programmatic");
				});
           </script>

[ahmedasaleh]

Programmatically created dijit.Textarea is not mirrored when dir is specified on widget level

[bill]

Your test is invalid because you didn't specify dir as a parameter to the Textarea constructor. The dir attribute in the markup is irrelevant for programmatic creation.

[ahmedasaleh]

Specifying dir on widjit level should be propagated to the grammatically created widjit. I understand that the current code of the widjit doesn't support that but I think the following code could fix it:

	buildRendering: function(){
		this.inherited(arguments);

		/* Modifications start here*/
		var myDijit = dijit.byId(this);
		var node = dojo.byId(myDijit.id);
		if(node.dir == "rtl"){
			myDijit.set("dir","rtl");
		}
		/* Modifications end here*/

		// tweak textarea style to reduce browser differences
		domStyle.set(this.textbox, { overflowY: 'hidden', overflowX: 'auto', boxSizing: 'border-box', MsBoxSizing: 'border-box', WebkitBoxSizing: 'border-box', MozBoxSizing: 'border-box' });
	}

[bill]

We intentionally don't support that. If you want to read parameters from the HTML markup, you should use the parser.

[Douglas Hays]

patch from Hossam Katory (IBM, CCLA)