Use the Text Area field when you need to store plain text content, such as descriptions or notes, that can be displayed in your theme.

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Validation Settings

The Validation settings include:

• Required: Toggle to make the field mandatory (default: off).
• Character Limit: Toggle to set limits; includes Max (maximum characters) and Min (minimum characters) input fields (both optional, default: unset).

Conditional Logic Settings

• Enable: Toggle to activate conditional logic for the field (default: off).
• Show this field if: Builds rules to control field visibility.

• Rule Structure: Select a field (e.g., “Number”) → Choose operator (e.g., “Value is not equal to”) → Specify value or field name (e.g., “Name”).
• Logic Operators: Combine rules with “And” (within group) or “OR” (between groups).
• Add Rule Group: Button to create additional rule groups for complex conditions.

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Template usage

Display value with paragraphs automatically added

This example shows how to output a Text Area field named product_description when the Automatically add paragraphs option is turned on. Line breaks will automatically be wrapped in <p> tags.

<h3>Product Description</h3>

<?php echo wp_kses_post ( ecm_get_field('product_description') ); ?>

Display value without formatting

This example shows how to output a Text Area field named product_description when the No formatting option is selected. In this case, you’ll need to manually wrap your content with <p> tags to define paragraphs.

<h3>Product Description</h3>
<p><?php echo wp_kses_post (ecm_ get_field('product_description') ); ?></p>