Form Field Types

This is a highlevel overview of available [apiFormField] subclasses. An automatically generated list is available through our API

Formatted Input

[AjaxUniqueTextField](api:AjaxUniqueTextField): Text field that automatically checks that the value entered is unique for the given set of fields in a given set of tables
[AutocompleteTextField](api:AutocompleteTextField)
[ConfirmedPasswordField](api:ConfirmedPasswordField): Shows two password-fields, and checks for matching passwords.
[CreditCardField](api:CreditCardField)
[CurrencyField](api:CurrencyField)
[EmailField](api:EmailField)
[HTMLEditorField](api:HTMLEditorField): A WYSIWYG editor field, powered by tinymce.
[NumericField](api:NumericField): A Single Numeric field extending a typical TextField but with validation.
[PasswordField](api:PasswordField)
[UniqueRestrictedTextField](api:UniqueRestrictedTextField): Text field that automatically checks that the value entered is unique for the given set of fields in a given set of tables
[UniqueTextField](api:UniqueTextField): Text field that automatically checks that the value entered is unique for the given set of fields in a given set of tables

[CompositeField](api:CompositeField): Base class for all fields that contain other fields. Uses <div> in template, but doesn't necessarily have any visible styling.
[FieldGroup](api:FieldGroup): Same as CompositeField, but has default styling (indentation) attached in CMS-context.
[api:FieldSet]: Basic container for sequential fields, or nested fields through CompositeField. Does NOT render a <fieldgroup>.
[TabSet](api:TabSet)
[Tab](api:Tab)

[api:Form] for more info
[InlineFormAction](api:InlineFormAction): Render a button that will act as If you want to add custom behaviour, please set {inlcudeDefaultJS} to false and work with behaviour.js.
[api:Image]: Action that uses an image instead of a button
[InlineFormAction](api:InlineFormAction): Prevents placement of a button in the CMS-button-bar.

[FileField](api:FileField): Simple file upload dialog.
[FileIFrameField](api:FileIFrameField): File uploads through an iframe
[api:ImageField]: Image upload through an iframe, with thumbnails and file-selection from existing assets
[SimpleImageField](api:SimpleImageField): SimpleImageField provides an easy way of uploading images to Image has_one relationships. Unlike ImageField, it doesn't use an iframe.

[ComplexTableField](api:ComplexTableField): Provides a tabuar list in your form with view/edit/add/delete links to modify records with a "has-one"-relationship (in a lightbox-popup).
[HasManyComplexTableField](api:HasManyComplexTableField)
[HasOneComplexTableField](api:HasOneComplexTableField)
[LanguageDropdownField](api:LanguageDropdownField): An extension to dropdown field, pre-configured to list languages. Tied into i18n.
[ManyManyComplexTableField](api:ManyManyComplexTableField)
[TableField](api:TableField)
[api:TableListField]
[TreeDropdownField](api:TreeDropdownField)
[TreeMultiselectField](api:TreeMultiselectField): represents many-many joins using a tree selector shown in a dropdown-like element
[api:WidgetArea]

[DatalessField](api:DatalessField) - Base class for fields which add some HTML to the form but don't submit any data or save it to the database
[HeaderField](api:HeaderField): Renders a simple <h1>-<h6> header
[HiddenField](api:HiddenField)
[LabelField](api:LabelField)
[LiteralField](api:LiteralField): Renders arbitrary HTML into a form.

Please see [api:HTMLEditorField] for in-depth documentation about custom forms created through a GUI in the CMS.