TextInput

Status: Stable
Accessibility: Reviewed
Package: tenet-ui@0.5.0
Source: TextInput.tsx

import { TextInput } from 'tenet-ui';

Also accepts every prop of Omit<InputHTMLAttributes<HTMLInputElement>, 'size'>.

Usage guidelines

When to use: any single-line text entry — search, email, name, filter. Use TextInput instead of a raw <input> so border, height, focus ring, and spacing stay on-system.

Rules

Always give the field an accessible name: an associated <label> or an aria-label. A placeholder is not a label.
Use leadingVisual / trailingVisual for icons (e.g. a search glyph) rather than absolutely-positioning your own.
Use size from the scale (small | medium | large); use fullWidth to fill the container width instead of inline width: 100% (block is the deprecated 0.3.0 name and warns).
Use invalid to signal validation errors — it sets aria-invalid and the danger border. Don’t recolor the border by hand.
Never hardcode height, border, or colors — they come from control.*, borderColor, and bgColor/fgColor tokens.

Do / Don’t

✅ <TextInput aria-label="Search all issues" leadingVisual={<SearchIcon />} fullWidth />
❌ <input style={{ height: 32, border: '1px solid #d0d7de', padding: '0 12px' }} /> — raw element, hardcoded chrome, no accessible name.

See also: FormControl for the label, caption, and validation wiring; SearchIcon and friends from tenet-ui/icons for leadingVisual; system guideline forms.

Examples

4 stories for TextInput, open in Storybook

Default components-textinput--default
With Leading Visual components-textinput--with-leading-visual
Invalid components-textinput--invalid
Sizes components-textinput--sizes

The full matrix (all args, controls, accessibility panel) is in Storybook.

Props

Prop	Type	Default	Description
`size`	`'small' \| 'medium' \| 'large'` TextInputSize	`medium`	Control height / font scale.
`fullWidth`	`boolean`	None	Stretch the field to fill the available width.
`block`deprecated	`boolean`	None	Stretch the field to fill the available width. Deprecated since 0.5.0. Use `fullWidth` instead (renamed in 0.4.0). `block` keeps working until 0.6.0.
`leadingVisual`	`ReactNode`	None	Element rendered before the input (e.g. a search icon).
`trailingVisual`	`ReactNode`	None	Element rendered after the input.
`invalid`	`boolean`	`false`	Mark the field as invalid (sets `aria-invalid` and a danger border).

Deprecated props keep working for one minor release; the replacement is named in the row.