--- title: "Chip field" description: "Collects a list of short texts — e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, keywords — typed one after another in one field. Each text your check accepts becomes a chip that can be removed, or put back into the typing part to be changed, and the list is the field's one value." url: "https://tanrei.chnotchy.com/components/chip-field/" last_updated: 2026-10-23T21:17:12.000Z --- # Chip field > Collects a list of short texts — e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, keywords — typed one after another in one field. Each text your check accepts becomes a chip that can be removed, or put back into the typing part to be changed, and the list is the field's one value. ## Overview Use a chip field where a person enters several short texts of one kind: the recipients of a message, the people a document is shared with, the numbers an alert is sent to, the keywords of an article. Each text is checked by itself, so one mistyped address among twelve does not cost the others, and each entry can be removed or changed alone. **Built from** a [field](https://tanrei.chnotchy.com/components/field/), a [text input](https://tanrei.chnotchy.com/components/text-input/) and [chips](https://tanrei.chnotchy.com/components/chip/). The field is the frame: the label, the required or optional mark, the help and the error. The text input is the box and the place where the next entry is typed. Each entry is a small input chip that stands in the box, before the typed text. The chip field draws nothing of its own and has no token, so it looks like the text fields beside it in every design system. It is as wide as the place it is put in. The entries and the typed text stand in lines that wrap, and the box grows by whole lines. Every entry is shown: none is hidden, folded into a count such as “+3”, or scrolled out of sight. On the web it is ``. The other platforms have not implemented it yet. ### Usage `value` is the list of entries, an array of texts. `inputValue` is the text that is typed and is not an entry yet. An entry is made of the typed text: - by Enter; - by a separator you list in `separators`. There is none by default, because a comma ends an e-mail address and is part of “Lovelace, Ada”; - when focus leaves the field; - from pasted text that holds a separator or a line break: each piece is offered in order. Tanrei does not know what an e-mail address or a telephone number is. `type` chooses the keyboard and checks nothing. Each candidate is offered to you with `check`: refuse it, and it stays in the box as typed text while the field shows its error. The same text twice and a text beyond `maxEntries` are refused without asking you. **Web** ```html
``` **React** ```tsx import { ChipField } from '@tanrei/react'; { if (!isAddress(event.detail.text)) event.preventDefault(); }} onChange={(event) => setRecipients(event.detail.value)} /> ``` To give the reason in your own words for one refusal, set `event.detail.reason` in the `check` listener. Otherwise the field shows `invalidText`, `duplicateText` or `limitText` by the reason, and `errorText` where that is empty. `reject` tells you each refused text, the reason and the words shown. An entry you find wrong later — an address a server reports as unknown — is yours to report: set `error` and `errorText`, and name the entry in the words. The person removes it, or puts its text back into the typing part to change it. ### Changing an entry | To | Do | | --- | --- | | Reach the entries from the typing part | Backspace, or the arrow that points to the line’s start, at the start of the text | | Move among the entries | Left and Right Arrow, Home and End | | Remove an entry | Backspace or Delete on it, or its remove action | | Change an entry | Enter or Space on it, or a press on the chip: its text goes back into the typing part | | Return to the typing part | Escape, Tab, or typing a character | The first Backspace only reaches the last entry. A second press removes it, and a held key is answered once, so erasing typed text never runs on into the list. ### One level down The same field, written by hand from its members, is the same picture: ```html ``` What the members written by hand do not do is what the chip field adds: | The chip field adds | By hand | | --- | --- | | Making an entry: Enter, separators, leaving, pasted lists | You listen to the text input and cut the text | | The checks and the entry error | You set `error` and `errorText` on the field | | One Tab stop and the keys among the entries | Every chip and every remove action is its own stop; you remove a chip and move focus | | The entries exposed as one list, and the three announcements | You write your own | | The list as one value in a form | Hidden inputs, or your own submission | Go one level down for an arrangement the chip field does not offer, such as entries that are not chips, or an icon in the box. ## Specs ### What each member gives | Aspect | From the field | From the text input | The chip field’s own | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Properties | `label`, `labelHidden`, `supportingText`, `errorText`, `error`, `disabled`, `required`, `optional`, `requiredMark`, `requiredText`, `optionalText` | `variant`, `size`, `type`, `placeholder`, `readOnly`, `autocomplete`, and `inputValue` (the text input’s `value`) | `value`, `separators`, `maxEntries`, `invalidText`, `duplicateText`, `limitText`, `removeLabel`, `addedText`, `addedCountText`, `removedText` | | Events | — | `input`, `action` | `change`, `check`, `reject` | | Slots | `label-icon` | — | — | | Tokens | `comp.field.*` | `comp.input-box.*` for the box; `comp.text-input.*` for the entries place | none; the entries read `comp.chip.*` | - **The entries are small chips** at both sizes of the box. A long entry has a line to itself and is cut by the chip; its whole text stays its name and its value. Their remove actions are plain, as a chip’s are by default: an entry removed can be typed again. - **The placeholder** is shown only while the list is empty. - **Read-only**: the entries can be reached and read, and are submitted. None can be made, removed or put back into the typing part, and each chip is drawn without its remove action. The field ends with its last line of chips: it keeps no room for typing. A disabled field keeps that room, so that it has the same shape when it is enabled again. - **Disabled**: the field, the box and every chip are disabled, and nothing is submitted. - **`maxEntries`** refuses one entry more, with `limitText`. Nothing is disabled or marked beforehand: say the limit in `supportingText`. - **`type`** is `text`, `email`, `tel` or `url`. Any other type behaves as `text`. ### Setting one field apart The chip field has no token of its own. To change one instance, set a member’s token on it: ```html ``` - Category: Text inputs - Level: composed - Listing: default - Built from: Field, Text input, Chip - Page: https://tanrei.chnotchy.com/components/chip-field/ - Spec: https://github.com/chnotchy/tanrei/blob/main/specs/chip-field.spec.json ### Availability | Design system | Has it | Notes | | --- | --- | --- | | Tanrei (`tanrei`) | Yes | Variants left out: `filled`, `outlined`. | | Cupertino (Apple HIG-inspired) (`cupertino`) | Yes | — | | M3 Expressive-like (Material 3 Expressive-inspired) (`m3-expressive-like`) | Yes | — | | M3-like (Material 3-inspired) (`m3-like`) | Yes | — | ### Platforms - Web: the element ``, registered by importing `@tanrei/web` (or only its own module, `@tanrei/web/components/chip-field`). - React: `ChipField` from `@tanrei/react`. | Platform | Name | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | Web | `tanrei-chip-field` | lagging | | SwiftUI | `TanreiChipField` | planned | | Jetpack Compose | `TanreiChipField` | planned | | Flutter | `TanreiChipField` | planned | | React Native | `ChipField` | planned | Names a platform gives in its own idiom: | Spec | Web | SwiftUI | Jetpack Compose | Flutter | React Native | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `value` (prop) | `value` | `entries` | `entries` | `entries` | `value` | | `inputValue` (prop) | `inputValue` | `text` | `text` | `controller` | `text` | | `type` (prop) | `type` | `contentType` | `keyboardType` | `keyboardType` | `inputMode` | | `readOnly` (prop) | `readOnly` | `isReadOnly` | `readOnly` | `readOnly` | `readOnly` | | `autocomplete` (prop) | `autocomplete` | `.textContentType(_:)` | `contentType` | `autofillHints` | `autoComplete` | | `label` (prop) | `label` | `label` | `label` | `labelText` | `label` | | `labelHidden` (prop) | `labelHidden` | `.labelsHidden()` | `labelHidden` | `labelHidden` | `labelHidden` | | `supportingText` (prop) | `supportingText` | `supportingText` | `supportingText` | `helperText` | `supportingText` | | `error` (prop) | `error` | `error` | `isError` | `error` | `error` | | `disabled` (prop) | `disabled` | `.disabled(_:)` | `enabled` | `enabled` | `disabled` | | `required` (prop) | `required` | `isRequired` | `required` | `required` | `required` | | `optional` (prop) | `optional` | `isOptional` | `optional` | `optional` | `optional` | | `change` (event) | `change` | `entries (Binding)` | `onEntriesChange` | `onChanged` | `onChange` | | `input` (event) | `input` | `text (Binding)` | `onTextChange` | `controller (listener)` | `onChangeText` | | `check` (event) | `check` | `check:` | `check` | `check` | `check` | | `reject` (event) | `reject` | `onReject:` | `onReject` | `onRejected` | `onReject` | | `action` (event) | `action` | `.onSubmit` | `onAction` | `onSubmitted` | `onSubmitEditing` | Statuses: `planned` — In the inventory. Nothing shippable exists yet. `lagging` — An implementation of an earlier spec exists; it has not caught up with the current one. `alpha` — Implemented with tests. The API may still change. `beta` — Feature complete and at parity. Only fixes are expected. `stable` — Covered by semantic versioning. `deprecated` — Still shipped; scheduled for removal. ### Anatomy - `field`: The Field: the label row with its glyph and its requirement mark, and the supporting row with the help and the error text. The Field's own, from the Field's tokens. - `text-input`: The Text input the Field frames: the box, its states, the typing part, and the lines in which its entries and its typing part stand. The Text input's own, from the Text input's tokens. - `chip` (optional): One entry of the list: an input Chip at its small size, with its remove action, standing in the Text input's box before the typing part. The Chip's own, from the Chip's tokens. ### Props | Prop | Type | Default | Web attribute | Description | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `value` | `strings` | `` | `value` | The entries, in the order they were made: the one value the chip field holds. Each is a text; none is empty, and no two are the same text. The chip field writes it as the person makes, removes and takes back entries, and emits change; what the product sets is shown as given and is not checked (CHF-3). | | `inputValue` | `string` | `""` | `input-value` | The text in the field; for date, time and date-time, the ISO 8601 form of what its segments give (2026-09-27, 14:30, 2026-09-27T14:30), or empty while a segment is empty or the value is not available. (From Text input: The text being typed that is not an entry yet. The chip field empties it when the text becomes an entry and writes it when an entry is taken back to be changed (CHF-15). It is never part of value and is never submitted.) | | `separators` | `strings` | `` | `separators` | The texts that end an entry when they are typed or found in what is pasted, as the product names them for what its entries are: a comma, a semicolon and a space for e-mail addresses ([",", ";", " "]); a comma for keywords that may hold a space. Empty, the default: Enter and a line break alone make an entry, because Tanrei knows no grammar of entries and a name such as "Lovelace, Ada" must not be cut in two by a default. | | `maxEntries` | `number` | `0` | `max-entries` | The most entries the list may hold; 0 is no limit. An entry that would exceed it is refused with the reason limit (CHF-10); the typing part stays usable. It never cuts a list the product sets. | | `variant` | `enum`: `stacked`, `filled`, `outlined` | `"stacked"` | `variant` | Stacked is a filled box that shows focus and error with a line inside its edge and draws no label: the label of the Field that frames it stands above it. Filled and outlined float the label inside the box, marked by a tinted box and a bottom line, or by a border. Use one style per form. A design system may leave some out (the Tanrei system ships stacked only) or add values. (From Text input.) | | `size` | `enum`: `small`, `medium`, `large` | `"medium"` | `size` | Minimum height of a single-line input's container: stacked 32 / 40 / 56, as tall as a Button of the same size, so that an input and a Button side by side in one row stand as tall as each other; filled and outlined 40 / 48 / 56, which hold the label that floats inside them. Medium and large are for forms; small is for an input in an app bar, a toolbar or a dense row of controls, beside a small select or button. The hit area always meets the minimum target. (From Text input: The least height of the box: it grows by whole lines as entries wrap (CHF-18). The entries are small chips at either size.) | | `type` | `enum`: `text`, `email`, `password`, `number`, `search`, `tel`, `url`, `code`, `date`, `time`, `date-time` | `"text"` | `type` | What the value is: chooses the keyboard, autocorrection, obscured entry and semantics. code is text written for a machine rather than for a reader — a snippet of configuration, a pattern, an identifier, a query, a key: a left-to-right run in the code face that the platform does not correct, capitalise, check for spelling or complete, on one line or, with multiline, on many. date, time and date-time are entered segment by segment in the locale's numeric form and held as ISO 8601. The value is a string for every type. (From Text input: What one entry is: it chooses the keyboard of the typing part and checks nothing. Only a type the Text input draws as one line of plain text is an entry of a list (text, email, tel, url); any other behaves as text (CHF-26).) | | `placeholder` | `string` | `""` | `placeholder` | A hint shown while the value is empty and the label is not in the input line (above, floated or hidden). Never a replacement for label. In a code field it is an example of the code and is drawn as code (TXI-53, TXI-54); a hint in words belongs in the supportingText of its Field. Ignored by a date, time or date-time field, whose empty segments each show their own. (From Text input: Shown only while the list is empty and nothing is typed (CHF-17).) | | `readOnly` | `boolean` | `false` | `readonly` | The value can be focused, selected and copied, but not changed. (From Text input: Also of the entries: none can be made, removed or taken back, and each is drawn without its remove action (CHF-20).) | | `autocomplete` | `string` | `""` | `autocomplete` | The autofill hint, as an HTML autofill field name (email, current-password, new-password, one-time-code, tel, postal-code, …); each platform maps it to its own content type. A code field left without one asks the platform to offer no remembered entry (TXI-55). (From Text input: What the platform fills in is typed text: it becomes an entry as typed text does (CHF-8).) | | `label` | `string` | `""` | `label` | Names the control, visibly and to assistive technology. Required, unless the control names itself (a checkbox or a switch with its own label): then leave it empty and the field adds only help and an error. (From Field: Always given. It names the typing part and the list of entries (CHF-21).) | | `labelHidden` | `boolean` | `false` | `label-hidden` | Does not draw the label, which stays the accessible name. For a control whose visible label is elsewhere (a table column, a toolbar). (From Field.) | | `supportingText` | `string` | `""` | `supporting-text` | Help shown below the control and given to assistive technology as the control's description. While the field is in error it gives way to errorText, unless the design system keeps both (comp.field.error-text.placement append). (From Field: The place to say what an entry is and how one is made ("Separate addresses with a comma."): the chip field has no words for it.) | | `errorText` | `string` | `""` | `error-text` | Shown while error is true, in supportingText's place — or below it, which then stays, where the design system's comp.field.error-text.placement is append: what is wrong and how to put it right, in words. (From Field: Also shown while an entry was refused and no text of its own reason is given (CHF-6).) | | `error` | `boolean` | `false` | `error` | Puts the field in the error condition: the error text is drawn, the control is exposed as invalid and, where it has an error condition of its own, drawn in it. What a value means is the product's to validate; the field never sets this itself. (From Field: For a reason that is the product's: the list as a whole, or an entry found wrong after it was made. A refused entry needs no setting: the chip field shows that itself (CHF-6).) | | `disabled` | `boolean` | `false` | `disabled` | Disables the control and draws the frame as disabled. Disable a framed control here, not on the control, so that its label follows. (From Field: Also disables every entry (CHF-19).) | | `required` | `boolean` | `false` | `required` | What the form asks of the control: true exposes it as required and draws the required mark beside the label. It never validates: a missing answer is the product's to report with error. (From Field: asks for at least one entry (CHF-25).) | | `optional` | `boolean` | `false` | `optional` | Draws the optional tag after the label and adds optionalText to the control's description, because assistive technology has no state for it. Ignored while required is true: a control is never both. (From Field.) | | `requiredMark` | `enum`: `auto`, `tag`, `asterisk`, `none` | `"auto"` | `required-mark` | How this control shows that it is required: tag is a small filled Tag with requiredText, asterisk is "*" after the label, none draws nothing and keeps the semantics. Auto takes comp.field.requirement.mark, which follows sys.behavior.requirement-mark, the system's one answer. Ignored unless required is true. (From Field.) | | `requiredText` | `string` | `""` | `required-text` | The text of the required tag, in the product's language ("Required", "必須"). The product's: Tanrei has no word for it. Empty reads the product's words; with neither, FLD-24 says what is drawn. (From Field.) | | `optionalText` | `string` | `""` | `optional-text` | The text of the optional tag, in the product's language ("Optional", "任意"); also read to assistive technology as part of the description. The product's: Tanrei has no word for it. Empty reads the product's words. (From Field.) | | `invalidText` | `string` | `""` | `invalid-text` | The error text shown while an entry was refused by the product's check and the check gave no reason of its own ("Enter a full address, such as name@example.com."). The product's, for this field: what makes an entry right differs from field to field, so it reads no word key. Empty, errorText is shown. | | `duplicateText` | `string` | `""` | `duplicate-text` | The error text shown while an entry was refused because the list already holds the same text ("That one is already in the list."). Empty reads the product's words; with neither, errorText is shown. | | `limitText` | `string` | `""` | `limit-text` | The error text shown while an entry was refused because the list holds maxEntries already ("No more can be added."). Empty reads the product's words; with neither, errorText is shown. | | `removeLabel` | `string` | `""` | `remove-label` | The accessible name of each entry's remove action. The product writes the whole name in its own language and marks one place in it, {entry}, which the chip field fills with that entry's text ("Remove {entry}", "{entry}を削除"), because the remove action is an element of its own and two of them must be told apart (CHP-18, CHP-28). Empty reads the product's words. Required: with neither, the action is exposed without a name and that is reported. | | `addedText` | `string` | `""` | `added-text` | The sentence assistive technology is told when one entry is made, with the place {entry} filled by its text ("{entry} added", "{entry}を追加しました"). Empty reads the product's words; with neither, nothing is said and that is reported (CHF-22). | | `addedCountText` | `string` | `""` | `added-count-text` | The sentence assistive technology is told when several entries are made at once, from pasted text, with the place {count} filled by how many ("{count} added"). Empty reads the product's words; with neither, addedText is said for the last of them. | | `removedText` | `string` | `""` | `removed-text` | The sentence assistive technology is told when an entry is removed, with the place {entry} filled by its text ("{entry} removed"). Empty reads the product's words; with neither, nothing is said and that is reported (CHF-22). | ### Events | Event | Description | | --- | --- | | `change` | The list changed by the person: an entry was made, several were made from pasted text, one was removed, or one was taken back to be changed. Carries the new value, and what was added and what was removed. Not emitted when the product sets value. | | `input` | The user changed the value; carries the new value. Emitted for every change, not when the product sets value. A date, time or date-time field emits it when its value changes — when its last segment is filled, a filled field is edited, or it is emptied — not for a segment that leaves the value empty. (From Text input: Of the text being typed, never of the list (CHF-16).) | | `check` | Asked of the product once for each candidate entry, before it is made: carries the candidate's text and the entries so far. The product refuses the candidate by answering no — cancelling the event on the web, returning its answer from the callback elsewhere — and may give the reason in its own words; left unanswered, the candidate is accepted. Answered at once, never later. Not asked for what the product sets, nor for a candidate already refused as a duplicate or over the limit. | | `reject` | A candidate entry was refused; carries its text, the reason (invalid: the product's check; duplicate: the list holds the same text; limit: the list holds maxEntries) and the words shown. Emitted once for each refused candidate. | | `action` | The user pressed the keyboard's action key (Enter, Return, Go, Search, Done) in a single-line field. (From Text input: Only while the typing part is empty: the action key pressed on text makes an entry and emits no action (CHF-4, CHF-16).) | ### Slots | Slot | Description | | --- | --- | | `label-icon` | A glyph before the label. (From Field.) | ### States `enabled`, `disabled`, `hovered`, `focused`, `error` ### Accessibility - Role: `textbox (the typing part), after a list of the entries` - Labeling: label names the typing part (a text box) and the list of entries; the supporting text with, in error, the error text after it describes the typing part, with optionalText while optional is true — all through the Field (FLD-10, FLD-11). Each entry is a button named by its whole text, cut or not, and its remove action a button named by removeLabel with the entry in it. A refusal is said by the Field's error announcement; an entry made or removed by addedText, addedCountText and removedText in a polite live region. Every word is the product's. - Minimum target size: yes | Keys | Action | | --- | --- | | Tab / Shift+Tab | Moves focus to the typing part, the chip field's one stop, and on from it. From an entry, Tab moves to the typing part and Shift+Tab leaves the chip field backwards. | | Enter | In the typing part with text: offers the text as an entry. With no text: the Text input's action key (on the web, asks for the form's submission). On an entry: takes it back into the typing part to be changed. | | A separator the product lists | Offers the text before it as an entry; the separator itself is not kept. | | Backspace | In the typing part with the caret at the start and nothing selected: moves focus to the last entry and removes nothing. On an entry: removes it; focus goes to the entry before it. A held key is answered once. | | Delete | On an entry: removes it; focus goes to the entry after it, or to the typing part. | | Left Arrow / Right Arrow | From the start of the typing part, the arrow that points to where the line starts moves focus to the last entry. Among entries, each arrow moves the way it points, in either layout direction; past the last entry focus returns to the typing part. | | Home / End | On an entry: moves focus to the first or the last entry. In the typing part they are the caret's. | | Space | On an entry: takes it back to be changed, as Enter does. In the typing part: a character, or a separator where the product lists it. | | Escape | On an entry: moves focus to the typing part. | | Any character | On an entry: moves focus to the typing part and types the character there. | - One stop, not one for every entry: a person who moves through a form with Tab lands in the typing part, where entries are made, and passes a list of thirty addresses in one press. The entries are reached from there with the arrow keys or Backspace, and by pointer, touch and a screen reader's own navigation as the separate elements they are. This replaces, inside the chip field only, the stops a Chip has when it stands alone (CHP-23), which that sentence leaves to whatever holds the chips. - A refused entry stays text. It is not drawn as a chip in an error state: the Chip has no such state, a refused chip would have to carry its reason somewhere a person who cannot see its color finds it, and the text is exactly what must be corrected — it is already under the caret. The error is the Field's: words in the supporting row, the invalid state on the typing part, announced once (WCAG 3.3.1, 3.3.3, 1.4.1). - An entry the product finds wrong after it was made (an address that turns out not to exist) is the product's to report with error and errorText, naming the entry in words; the person removes it or takes it back to change it. - Backspace takes two presses to remove the last entry — one to reach it, one to remove it — and a held key never reaches an entry, so that erasing typed text cannot run on into the list (WCAG 3.3.4 in spirit: a removal is deliberate). - Activating an entry takes it back into the typing part. Nothing in its name says so, because Tanrei has no words: a product whose people need it said writes it in supportingText ("Press Enter on an address to change it"). - Targets: an entry is a small Chip, 24 high, whose own hit area and whose remove action's reach the minimum target (CHP-5, CHP-21); between two lines of entries those areas overlap and meet at the middle (CHF-30). Every pointer action has a key: Backspace and Delete remove, Enter takes back. - Enter never submits a form while there is text to make an entry of; with an empty typing part it is the Text input's action key. Text that is typed and not yet an entry is not part of the value: it becomes an entry when focus leaves, and a product that submits by script while the field has focus reads inputValue. - The text of an input method's composition is never cut into entries: the key that commits a composition commits it, and only then is the text read (CHF-7). A Japanese or Chinese ideographic comma is a separator only where the product lists it. - A long entry is cut by the Chip with an ellipsis and keeps its whole text as its name; there is no tooltip. Taking it back shows it whole in the typing part. - Forced colors: the chip field draws nothing of its own, so there is nothing of its own to lose. - How a state looks is a value decision of the active design system; components read the state's tokens and never compute the effect themselves. ### Behaviour Requirements in EARS form, each with its stable id. - **CHF-1** THE chip field SHALL be a Field that frames one Text input, with every entry of value drawn as a Chip in the place the Text input keeps inside its box for what was entered already, before the typing part. It SHALL draw nothing of its own: the label row, the requirement mark, the supporting row and the error are the Field's (FLD-1 to FLD-8), the box, its states, its typing part and the lines its entries stand in are the Text input's, and each entry is the Chip's (CHF-2). THE chip field SHALL give the Text input and the Chips no look they do not have anywhere else, and SHALL read no token of its own. THE chip field SHALL be as wide as the place it stands in, and its Text input SHALL fill it: it is a block with no width of its own, as its Field is (FLD-1), around a control that fills the width it is given (TXI-63); its entries wrap inside that width (CHF-18). - **CHF-2** THE chip field SHALL draw each entry as a Chip of kind input, size small and the Chip's default variant, whose label is the entry's text and whose remove action is named by removeLabel with its place {entry} filled by that text (CHF-23), in the order of value, the first at the start of the first line. The Chip SHALL be drawn, measured, cut where it does not fit and answered as the Chip's own spec says (CHP-3, CHP-8 to CHP-10, CHP-16 to CHP-18, CHP-20, CHP-21, CHP-27, CHP-32); THE chip field SHALL give an entry no icon and no avatar. - **CHF-3** WHEN the product sets value THE chip field SHALL show exactly those entries in that order, SHALL NOT ask the product's check about them, apply maxEntries to them or refuse one that is there twice, because the chip field checks what the person enters and the product what it sets, SHALL end an entry error (CHF-6), and SHALL NOT emit change, check or reject nor announce anything; an entry that is empty or only white space SHALL be left out and in debug builds reported. WHEN the product sets inputValue THE chip field SHALL show that text in the typing part and make no entry of it until the person does (CHF-4). IF an entry that has focus is no longer in the list the product set THE chip field SHALL move focus to the typing part. - **CHF-4** WHILE the typing part holds text THE chip field SHALL offer that text, without the white space at its two ends, as a candidate entry (CHF-5) WHEN the person presses the keyboard's action key (Enter, Return, Done), WHEN a separator is entered (CHF-9), or WHEN focus leaves the chip field for another part of the product — not when focus moves between the typing part and an entry, and not when the window itself loses focus. A candidate that is empty after its ends are trimmed SHALL make no entry, SHALL empty the typing part and SHALL be refused to no one. The action key pressed on text SHALL NOT emit action and SHALL NOT submit a form: it has made an entry. - **CHF-5** WHEN a candidate entry is offered THE chip field SHALL decide in this order, and stop at the first that refuses: IF value already holds the same text, compared character for character, it SHALL refuse the candidate with the reason duplicate; IF maxEntries is greater than 0 and value holds that many entries it SHALL refuse it with the reason limit (CHF-10); otherwise it SHALL emit check with the candidate and the entries so far and, IF the product refuses it there, refuse it with the reason invalid and the words the product gave, if any. A check that no one answers accepts. THE chip field SHALL wait for no answer that comes later: the product answers check before the event returns. WHEN the candidate is accepted THE chip field SHALL add it at the end of value, empty the typing part of it, keep focus where it is, end an entry error (CHF-6), emit change once with the new list, and announce the entry (CHF-22). - **CHF-6** WHEN a candidate entry is refused THE chip field SHALL leave its text in the typing part as the person wrote it, with the caret at its end WHILE focus is still there, SHALL NOT add it to value, and SHALL enter an entry error: WHILE it lasts THE chip field SHALL be in the Field's error condition whatever error is (FLD-8), showing as the Field's error text, where FLD-31 puts it (FLD-28), the first of these that is not empty — the words the product's check gave; invalidText, duplicateText or limitText, by the reason; errorText — and SHALL emit reject once with the text, the reason (invalid, duplicate or limit) and the words shown. The Field announces those words as it announces any error under the person's focus (FLD-9), and the chip field SHALL announce nothing more for a refusal. WHERE none of those words is given THE chip field SHALL still mark the typing part invalid and in debug builds report that a refusal has no words. THE entry error SHALL end WHEN the person changes the text in the typing part, WHEN an entry is made, removed or taken back, or WHEN the product sets value or inputValue; it SHALL NOT end because focus leaves, SHALL NOT bring focus back to a field the person left, and SHALL NOT change error, which is the product's. - **CHF-7** WHILE an input method is composing text in the typing part (TXI-4) THE chip field SHALL make no entry: the action key that commits a composition SHALL commit the composition and nothing else, and a separator inside text that is still being composed SHALL be left to the input method. WHEN the composition is committed THE chip field SHALL read the committed text for separators as it reads any entered text (CHF-9). - **CHF-8** WHEN text that holds a line break or a separator is pasted, dropped or dictated into the typing part, or filled in by the platform, THE chip field SHALL read it together with the text already there as a row of candidates — cut at every line break and at every separator — and offer each in order (CHF-5), dropping the empty ones without a word; the accepted ones SHALL become entries in that order, change SHALL be emitted once for all of them, and they SHALL be announced once (CHF-22). The refused ones SHALL stay in the typing part in their order, joined by the first of separators followed by a space, or by one space WHERE separators is empty, and THE chip field SHALL enter the entry error of the first that was refused and emit reject for each. A piece after the last line break or separator SHALL be offered with the others when the text was pasted, dropped or filled in, and SHALL stay as typed text when it was typed. Text that holds neither SHALL be the Text input's own to take: it stays typed text and makes no entry. - **CHF-9** THE chip field SHALL take as separators the texts separators lists, and always a line break. WHEN a separator comes to stand in the typing part by any means the person has — a key, a touch keyboard, a committed composition, dictation — THE chip field SHALL offer the text before it as a candidate (CHF-4), SHALL NOT keep the separator in the typing part or in the entry, and SHALL keep the text after it as typed text; a separator entered while nothing but white space stands before it SHALL be dropped and make no entry. It SHALL find a separator in the text and not by the key that was pressed, so that a keyboard that reports no key still ends an entry. An entry of separators that is empty SHALL be ignored and in debug builds reported; white space is a separator only where the product lists it. - **CHF-10** WHILE maxEntries is greater than 0 and value holds that many entries THE chip field SHALL keep its typing part focusable and editable, SHALL refuse every candidate with the reason limit (CHF-5, CHF-6), and SHALL NOT disable, hide or mark anything beforehand: that the list is full is said by the product in supportingText and by limitText when one more is tried. WHEN maxEntries is not a whole number of 0 or more THE chip field SHALL behave as 0 and in debug builds report it. THE chip field SHALL draw no count of its entries. - **CHF-11** THE chip field SHALL be one stop in the focus order: its typing part. WHILE it holds entries THE chip field SHALL take each Chip and each remove action out of the Tab order, in place of the stops CHP-23 gives a chip that stands alone, and SHALL keep each entry reachable from the keyboard by the keys of CHF-12 and CHF-13, by pointer and touch, and as an element of its own by assistive technology. WHILE an entry has focus Tab SHALL move focus to the typing part and Shift+Tab to what stands before the chip field. A press on the box outside every entry SHALL move focus to the typing part as the Text input says (TXI-8); a press on the label does what the Field says (FLD-12). - **CHF-12** WHILE the typing part has focus, its caret stands at the start of its text and nothing in it is selected, WHEN the person presses the arrow key that points to where the line starts (Left Arrow; Right Arrow in a right-to-left layout) or Backspace THE chip field SHALL move focus to the last entry and remove nothing; WHILE value is empty it SHALL leave the key to the Text input. THE chip field SHALL NOT answer the repeats of a key that is held down: a Backspace held to erase the typed text SHALL stop at the start of the text and never reach an entry. - **CHF-13** WHILE an entry has focus THE chip field SHALL move focus, without activating or removing anything: on Left Arrow to the entry drawn before it on the left and on Right Arrow to the one drawn after it on the right — in a right-to-left layout the same two keys the other way, so that an arrow always moves the way it points — on Home to the first entry and on End to the last; the arrow that points past the last entry SHALL move focus to the typing part with the caret at the start of its text, the arrow that points before the first entry SHALL do nothing, and focus SHALL NOT wrap. Up Arrow and Down Arrow SHALL do nothing: the entries are one row in their order, however many lines it is drawn on. Escape SHALL move focus to the typing part. WHEN the person types a character while an entry has focus THE chip field SHALL move focus to the typing part and that character SHALL be typed there. Focus that arrives on an entry from the keyboard SHALL show the Chip's focus ring (CHP-4) and bring the entry into view. - **CHF-14** WHEN an entry's Chip emits remove — Backspace or Delete on the focused entry (CHP-19), or its remove action by pointer, touch or assistive technology (CHP-18) — THE chip field SHALL take that entry out of value, as CHP-22 leaves it to do, end an entry error (CHF-6), emit change once with the new list, and announce the removal (CHF-22). It SHALL then move focus: after Backspace to the entry that stood before the removed one, or to the one that followed WHERE it was the first; after Delete or the remove action to the entry that followed, always on the Chip and never on a remove action; and to the typing part WHERE no entry is left or none follows. THE chip field SHALL NOT answer the repeats of a held Backspace or Delete, so that one press removes one entry. - **CHF-15** WHEN the person activates an entry's Chip itself — by pointer, touch, Enter or Space (CHP-1), not its remove action — and readOnly is false THE chip field SHALL take the entry back to be changed: it SHALL first offer any text in the typing part as a candidate (CHF-4) and, IF that is refused, do nothing more than CHF-6 says; otherwise it SHALL take the entry out of value, write its text into the typing part with the caret at its end, move focus there, and emit change once with the new list. The text is then typed text like any other: it becomes an entry again, at the end of the list, as CHF-4 says, and is checked again. THE chip field SHALL announce nothing for it: the typing part, focused with its text, is what assistive technology reads. - **CHF-16** WHEN the person presses the action key while the typing part is empty THE chip field SHALL leave the key to the Text input, which emits action and, on the web, asks for the form's submission (TXI-3); WHEN the person changes the text in the typing part THE chip field SHALL emit input with the new text as the Text input does. THE chip field SHALL emit change only for a change of its list by the person (CHF-5, CHF-8, CHF-14, CHF-15), never for typed text, and never when focus leaves with nothing made. - **CHF-17** WHILE value holds an entry THE chip field SHALL give the Text input no placeholder, so that a hint for the first entry does not stand after the last; WHILE variant is filled or outlined and value holds an entry the Text input shows its label floated, as it does for a value that is not empty (TXI-13), and THE chip field SHALL hide the Field's label row in those two looks as the text field does. - **CHF-18** THE chip field SHALL show every entry it holds: it SHALL NOT hide an entry, stand a count in the place of some, scroll its lines or limit its height. The entries and the typing part stand in lines that wrap inside the box, which grows by whole lines from the height of its size, as the Text input says of its entries; an entry whose text is wider than a line SHALL have that line to itself and be cut by the Chip's own rule (CHP-17), its whole text staying its accessible name and its value. WHEN entries come, go or change the lines THE chip field SHALL keep focus where it is and add no motion of its own. - **CHF-19** WHILE disabled is true THE chip field SHALL disable the Field, and through it the Text input (FLD-14, TXI-5), and every entry's Chip (CHP-2, CHP-6): nothing in it SHALL take focus, no entry SHALL be made, removed or taken back, and it SHALL emit no event; its entries SHALL stay drawn and readable to assistive technology as disabled, and it SHALL be left out of form submission. - **CHF-20** WHILE readOnly is true and disabled is false THE chip field SHALL make no entry, remove none and take none back: the typing part is the Text input's read-only one (TXI-10), each entry SHALL be drawn as an input Chip without a remove action, a press or a key on an entry SHALL move focus and do nothing else (CHF-13), Backspace and Delete on an entry SHALL do nothing, and check, reject and change SHALL NOT be emitted. The entries SHALL stay reachable by the keys of CHF-12 and CHF-13 so that each can be read, and the list SHALL be submitted with its form. - **CHF-21** THE chip field SHALL expose to assistive technology, in this order: the entries as one list named by label, each entry an item that holds its Chip — a button named by the entry's whole text — and beside it its remove action, a button named by removeLabel (CHF-2); then the typing part, a text box named by label and described by what the supporting row shows, invalid WHILE the field is in error or in an entry error and required WHILE required is true, all given by the Field (FLD-8, FLD-10, FLD-11). WHILE value is empty it SHALL expose no list. It SHALL add no role, role description or word of its own for being a field of several entries: what an entry is and how one is made is the product's to say in supportingText. - **CHF-22** THE chip field SHALL hold one live region of its own, polite, empty at rest and not drawn. WHEN one entry is made (CHF-5) it SHALL put into it addedText with {entry} filled by the entry's text; WHEN several are made at once (CHF-8) addedCountText with {count} filled by how many, written as the platform writes a whole number in the language of the field, or addedText for the last of them WHERE addedCountText is not given; WHEN an entry is removed (CHF-14) removedText with {entry} filled by its text. An entry's text SHALL be put into the sentence as plain text of its own direction, isolated from it. A later sentence SHALL replace what the region holds and SHALL NOT queue behind it. THE chip field SHALL announce nothing when the product sets value, when an entry is taken back (CHF-15), or when one is refused (CHF-6: the Field says it). - **CHF-23** THE chip field SHALL have no words of its own: it SHALL take requiredText and optionalText as the Field does (FLD-24), and duplicateText, limitText, removeLabel, addedText, addedCountText and removedText from the instance's prop and, WHILE that is empty, from the product's words under the key each names, and from nowhere else; invalidText is the instance's alone. It SHALL fill the places {entry} and {count} as a word with places is filled — wherever and however often the product's sentence has them, any other text between braces and a brace that opens or closes nothing left as it is written and in debug builds reported once per page or screen, naming the prop, and a brace written twice drawn as one brace — SHALL say or name with a sentence that has no place exactly as it is written, and in debug builds SHALL report a removeLabel without {entry}, because two remove actions would then have one name. IF neither gives removeLabel THE chip field SHALL still draw the remove action and keep it working, expose it without a name and in debug builds report it; IF neither gives addedText or removedText it SHALL say nothing for that and in debug builds report it. - **CHF-24** WHERE the platform has forms that collect named values (the web's form) THE chip field SHALL take part in one itself, under its name, as a control that holds several values does: it SHALL submit one value for each entry, in the order of value, each under that same name, and none WHILE the list is empty; SHALL NOT submit the text in the typing part, which is not an entry; SHALL return to the list it was first given WHEN the form is reset, with an empty typing part and no entry error; and SHALL have the platform restore its list where it restores a form's state. Its members stand outside the form and SHALL submit nothing themselves. - **CHF-25** WHILE required is true THE chip field SHALL expose its typing part as required (FLD-4, FLD-10) and, on the web, report an empty list to the form's constraint validation as a missing value — whatever text stands in the typing part, which is not an entry. THE chip field SHALL NOT validate otherwise because of required: it SHALL NOT set error or show an error text for an empty list, which is the product's to report. - **CHF-26** THE chip field SHALL take from type only what the Text input gives its typing part for it (TXI-20) and SHALL hold no rule of its own for what an address, a number or a link is: a text of any type becomes an entry unless it is the same as another, exceeds maxEntries or is refused by the product's check (CHF-5). WHEN type names a value other than text, email, tel and url — a type the Text input draws as something else than one line of plain text, or one it does not know — THE chip field SHALL behave as text and in debug builds report it; WHEN variant or size names a value the active design system does not have, the Text input says what is drawn. - **CHF-27** WHERE the layout direction is right-to-left THE chip field SHALL be mirrored as its members are (FLD-18, TXI-24, CHP-25): every line of entries starts at the right, the typing part follows the last entry to its left, and the order of value, of focus (CHF-13) and of reading (CHF-21) stays the order the entries were made in. THE chip field SHALL take its layout direction from where it is used and have no direction setting of its own (FLD-19); each entry's text keeps its own direction as the Chip says (CHP-31), so that an e-mail address or a telephone number reads left to right inside a right-to-left list. - **CHF-28** WHILE the text size is enlarged THE chip field SHALL grow with its members (FLD-16, CHP-17): at twice the text size in a place 320 wide every entry SHALL still be shown, each on a line of its own where two no longer fit, cut only by the Chip's own rule with its whole text as its name, the typing part SHALL stay wide enough to type in on a line of its own where the last line leaves it too little, and nothing SHALL lie over another part or need scrolling in two directions. - **CHF-29** WHERE the platform draws with a person's own forced colors THE chip field SHALL draw nothing of its own there either: the frame is drawn as the Field says (FLD-17) and the box and each entry as the Text input and the Chip are drawn there. It SHALL rely on no color to tell a refused entry from an accepted one: a refused entry is text in the typing part and an accepted one is a Chip, and the reason is in words (CHF-6). - **CHF-30** WHILE disabled is false and readOnly is false THE chip field SHALL keep every entry's hit areas as the Chip gives them (CHP-5, CHP-21): the remove action's reaches sys.target.touch for touch input and sys.target.pointer for fine pointers, and WHERE the hit areas of neighbouring entries, on one line or on two, overlap THE chip field SHALL give a press on an entry's visible bounds to that entry and a press between two to the nearer one. A press that lands on no entry and no remove action SHALL be the typing part's (CHF-11). - **CHF-31** WHERE the platform has ARIA attributes (the web), WHEN the product sets an aria- attribute on the host, by the attribute or by the ARIA property that reflects it, THE chip field SHALL move it to the data-aria- attribute of the same name, so that the host is no second node with its name, description or state, and SHALL expose it on the element that carries its role — an id reference by the elements it names in the host's tree or a tree around it, an error message as part of the description while the chip field is invalid — except those the chip field owns (aria-label, aria-labelledby, aria-disabled), which it SHALL move and not expose: its name is label (CHF-21). WHEN the product removes the aria- attribute or its data-aria- twin, or sets the ARIA property that reflects it (ariaLabel, ariaDescribedByElements…) to null, THE chip field SHALL take it off that element. WHEN the product sets an aria- attribute the chip field owns THE chip field SHALL report it in debug builds. ### Tokens As written in the token documents (DTCG): an alias in braces names the token it takes its value from, which each design system resolves. On the web each token is a CSS custom property: `--tanrei` and the name after `tanrei`, joined by hyphens (`tanrei.comp.field.…` → `--tanrei-comp-field-…`). #### `tanrei.comp.field` | Token | Type | Value | | --- | --- | --- | | `comp.field.label.typescale` | `typography` | `{tanrei.sys.typescale.label}` | | `comp.field.label.gap` | `dimension` | `{tanrei.sys.space.space100}` | | `comp.field.label-icon.size` | `dimension` | `{tanrei.sys.icon.small}` | | `comp.field.label-icon.gap` | `dimension` | `{tanrei.sys.space.space100}` | | `comp.field.requirement.mark` | `number` | `{tanrei.sys.behavior.requirement-mark}` | | `comp.field.requirement.gap` | `dimension` | `{tanrei.sys.space.space100}` | | `comp.field.requirement.asterisk-gap` | `dimension` | `{tanrei.sys.space.space25}` | | `comp.field.supporting-text.typescale` | `typography` | `{tanrei.sys.typescale.label-small}` | | `comp.field.supporting-text.gap` | `dimension` | `{tanrei.sys.space.space50}` | | `comp.field.counter.gap` | `dimension` | `{tanrei.sys.space.space200}` | | `comp.field.motion.state-duration` | `duration` | `{tanrei.sys.motion.role.state.default}` | | `comp.field.motion.state-easing` | `cubicBezier` | `{tanrei.sys.motion.easing.state}` | | `comp.field.standard.label.color` | `color` | `{tanrei.sys.color.on-surface}` | | `comp.field.standard.label-icon.color` | `color` | `{tanrei.sys.color.on-surface-variant}` | | `comp.field.standard.supporting-text.color` | `color` | `{tanrei.sys.color.on-surface-variant}` | | `comp.field.standard.counter.color` | `color` | `{tanrei.sys.color.on-surface-variant}` | | `comp.field.standard.required-asterisk.color` | `color` | `{tanrei.sys.color.primary}` | | `comp.field.standard.error.label.color` | `color` | `{tanrei.sys.color.on-surface}` | | `comp.field.standard.error.label-icon.color` | `color` | `{tanrei.sys.color.on-surface-variant}` | | `comp.field.standard.error.supporting-text.color` | `color` | `{tanrei.sys.color.on-surface-variant}` | | `comp.field.standard.error.counter.color` | `color` | `{tanrei.sys.color.on-surface-variant}` | | `comp.field.standard.error.required-asterisk.color` | `color` | `{tanrei.sys.color.primary}` | | `comp.field.standard.error.value-text.color` | `color` | `{tanrei.sys.color.on-surface-variant}` | | `comp.field.standard.value-text.color` | `color` | `{tanrei.sys.color.on-surface-variant}` | | `comp.field.standard.error-text.color` | `color` | `{tanrei.sys.color.error}` | | `comp.field.value-text.typescale` | `typography` | `{tanrei.sys.typescale.label}` | | `comp.field.value-text.gap` | `dimension` | `{tanrei.sys.space.space200}` | | `comp.field.error-text.gap` | `dimension` | `{tanrei.sys.space.space50}` | | `comp.field.error-text.placement` | `number` | `0` | Per-state tokens, valued by the design system's pattern rules (not written by hand): - `comp.field...` for the variants `standard`, the states `focused`, `disabled` and the properties `label.color`, `label-icon.color`, `supporting-text.color`, `required-asterisk.color`, `error.label.color`, `error.label-icon.color`, `error.supporting-text.color`, `error.required-asterisk.color`, `counter.color`, `error.counter.color`, `value-text.color`, `error.value-text.color`, `error-text.color`. ### What the web draws differently - The element’s shadow root holds a `` with a `` in it, and a `` for each entry in the text input’s `entries` slot. Importing the element defines all three. - `value` is an array property: assign a new array to change it. The `value` attribute is read once, as a JSON array of strings, and is what a form’s reset returns to. `separators` is an array too; its attribute is a JSON array. - The element is form-associated. It submits one value for each entry under `name`, in order, and nothing while the list is empty or the field is disabled. The typed text is never submitted. It follows a disabled `
`, is restored on navigation, and reports a missing value while `required` is set and the list is empty. - `change`, `check` and `reject` are CustomEvents the element dispatches: `detail` is `{ value, added, removed }`, `{ text, values }` and `{ text, reason, message }`. `check` is cancelable and read when it returns: an answer given later is not read. - `input` and `action` are the text input’s own. `action` is fired only by Enter on an empty typing part, and then asks for the form’s submission. Enter on text makes an entry: the key is stopped before the text input hears it, so a `keydown` listener in the bubbling phase does not hear that press. - Parts: `field`, `text-input` and `chip` are the members. The field’s and the text input’s own parts keep their names (`label`, `supporting-text`, `container`, `input`, `entries`, and so on). A chip’s are `entry-container`, `entry-label` and `entry-remove`. - The element is not focusable itself and has no role: `focus()` goes to the typing part. Name it with `label`, never with `aria-label`. - Text is read for separators when it changes, never by the key that was pressed, so a touch keyboard and dictation end an entry too. While an input method is composing, nothing is made: the key that commits the composition commits it, and only then is the text read. - Attributes are kebab-case, such as `input-value`, `max-entries`, `remove-label` and `added-count-text`. `readonly` and `autocomplete` keep HTML’s names. - Before the element is defined it has no size and shows nothing. Reserve the height of the box. A page that must take a list without script uses a plain `` or `