DevExtreme TextBox Skill

A skill for building and configuring the DevExtreme TextBox UI component (dxTextBox) across Angular, React, Vue, and jQuery.

When to Use This Skill

• Creating a text input field
• Configuring input mode (text, password, email, search, tel, url)
• Binding and reading the value
• Handling value change events
• Adding a label or placeholder
• Limiting text length
• Showing a clear button

Before You Start

If the host agent has a structured question-asking tool available, use it to ask these questions one at a time with clear options — for example, Claude Code's AskUserQuestion tool or GitHub Copilot's askQuestions tool. If no such tool is available, ask the questions directly in the chat response before generating code.

⚠️ Always use the DevExtreme TextBox (dxTextBox / DxTextBox). Never use react-input-mask, IMask, a plain HTML <input>, or Material UI TextField.

Before writing any code, ask: Which framework are you using? Angular, React, Vue, or jQuery?

Key API

Option	Type	Default	Description
value	String	''	The current text value
mode	TextBoxMode	'text'	Input type: 'text', 'password', 'email', 'search', 'tel', 'url'
label	String	''	Floating label text
placeholder	String	''	Placeholder shown when empty
valueChangeEvent	String	'change'	DOM event that triggers value update (e.g., 'keyup', 'input')
onValueChanged	function(e)	null	Fires when the value changes; e.value is the new value, e.previousValue is the old
showClearButton	Boolean	false	Shows an × button to clear the field
maxLength	Number | String	null	Maximum character count
readOnly	Boolean	false	Prevents user input
disabled	Boolean	false	Disables the component
inputAttr	Object	{}	HTML attributes applied to the inner <input> element
hint	String	undefined	Tooltip shown on hover

Events: valueChanged, keyDown, keyUp, enterKey, focusIn, focusOut, input, change.

Getting Started

jQuery

<!-- index.html -->
<div id="text-box"></div>

$(function() {
    $('#text-box').dxTextBox({
        placeholder: 'Enter text...',
        showClearButton: true,
        onValueChanged(e) {
            console.log(e.value);
        }
    });
});

Angular

<!-- app.html -->
<dx-text-box
    placeholder="Enter text..."
    [showClearButton]="true"
    (onValueChanged)="onValueChanged($event)">
</dx-text-box>

// app.ts
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { DxTextBoxComponent, DxTextBoxTypes } from 'devextreme-angular/ui/text-box';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    standalone: true,
    imports: [DxTextBoxComponent],
    templateUrl: './app.html'
})
export class AppComponent {
    onValueChanged(e: DxTextBoxTypes.ValueChangedEvent) {
        console.log(e.value);
    }
}

<template>
    <DxTextBox
        placeholder="Enter text..."
        :show-clear-button="true"
        @value-changed="onValueChanged"
    />
</template>

<script setup lang="ts">
import DxTextBox, { DxTextBoxTypes } from 'devextreme-vue/text-box';

function onValueChanged(e: DxTextBoxTypes.ValueChangedEvent) {
    console.log(e.value);
}
</script>

React

import 'devextreme/dist/css/dx.fluent.blue.light.css';
import { TextBox, type TextBoxTypes } from 'devextreme-react/text-box';

function onValueChanged(e: TextBoxTypes.ValueChangedEvent) {
    console.log(e.value);
}

function App() {
    return (
        <TextBox
            placeholder="Enter text..."
            showClearButton={true}
            onValueChanged={onValueChanged}
        />
    );
}

export default App;

Common Patterns

Password field

<!-- Angular -->
<dx-text-box mode="password" placeholder="Password"></dx-text-box>

Apply value on every keystroke instead of on blur

// jQuery
$('#text-box').dxTextBox({ valueChangeEvent: 'keyup' });

{/* React */}
<TextBox valueChangeEvent="keyup" />

Two-way binding (React with state)

import { useState, useCallback } from 'react';
import { TextBox } from 'devextreme-react/text-box';

function App() {
    const [value, setValue] = useState('');
    const handleValueChanged = useCallback((e) => setValue(e.value), []);

    return (
        <TextBox
            value={value}
            onValueChanged={handleValueChanged}
        />
    );
}

Constraints & Rules

1. Framework first: Always ask which framework before writing code.
2. No fabricated API: Never guess option names. Use the DxDocs MCP to verify if unsure.
3. Version consistency: All DevExtreme packages must use the same version.
4. Framework conventions: Angular uses DxTextBoxComponent; React imports from devextreme-react/text-box; Vue imports from devextreme-vue/text-box; jQuery uses $(...).dxTextBox({}).
5. TypeScript by default: For Angular, React (TSX), and Vue, generate TypeScript unless explicitly asked otherwise.
6. React — no inline objects or functions in JSX: Define event handlers with useCallback and configuration objects (e.g. buttons arrays) with useMemo or as module-level constants. Never pass () => {} or {} literals directly as JSX props.
7. Angular — standalone imports: Import DxTextBoxComponent from devextreme-angular/ui/text-box into the component's imports array. Do not use DxTextBoxModule or NgModule — Angular 20+ is fully standalone.
8. jQuery — always output both HTML and JS: Every jQuery snippet must include the container element (e.g. <div id="text-box"></div>) alongside the JavaScript initializer.
9. Angular — prefer two-way value binding: Use [(value)]="property" instead of [value]="property" + a separate (onValueChanged) handler when the only goal is syncing the value.
10. Angular/Vue — use nested components for action buttons: In Angular, declare action buttons using <dxi-text-box-button> nested inside <dx-text-box>. In Vue, use <DxTextBoxButton> nested inside <DxTextBox>. Do not use the flat [buttons] array binding.

Using the DxDocs MCP

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• Search: devexpress_docs_search(technologies=["<Framework>"], question="<keywords>") — <Framework> is whichever of Angular/React/Vue/jQuery/DevExtremeAspNetMvc the developer named earlier
• Fetch: devexpress_docs_get_content(url="<url-from-search>")

Use for: masking options (mask, maskChar, maskRules), action buttons inside TextBox, and any option not listed above.

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Official Resources

• TextBox demos
• dxTextBox API reference
• Getting Started with TextBox