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Special Configuration (defaultExtras)

It is possible to pass special parameters to a field. For instance you can define that a text field should not wrap lines. The following definition adds nowrap configuration to the "description field" in the ['columns']['field name'] array:

'columns' => array(
        'description' => array(
                'exclude' => 0,
                'label' => 'LLL:EXT:examples/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_db.xlf:tx_examples_dummy.description',
                'config' => array(
                        'type' => 'text',
                        'cols' => 50,
                        'rows' => 3
                ),
                'defaultExtras' => 'nowrap'
        ),
),

Additionally, it is possible to overwrite or add this setting for certain types only. The following definition (in the "tx_examples_dummy" table of the "examples" extension) adds a nowrap configuration to the "description field":

'0' => array(
        'showitem' => 'hidden, record_type, title, description;;;nowrap, some_date'
        'columnsOverrides' => array(
                'description' => array(
                        'defaultExtras' => 'nowrap',
                ),
        ),
),

The field itself is defined absolutely normally:

'columns' => array(
        'description' => array(
                'exclude' => 0,
                'label' => 'LLL:EXT:examples/Resources/Private/Language/locallang_db.xlf:tx_examples_dummy.description',
                'config' => array(
                        'type' => 'text',
                        'cols' => 50,
                        'rows' => 3
                ),
        ),
),

The result is a textarea field where lines are not wrapped automatically when reaching the width of the box:

A text field which does not wrap automatically

The point of setting nowrap in the "types" "columnsOverrides" configuration is that under other "types"-configurations the field will wrap lines. Likewise you can configure an RTE to appear for a field only if a certain type of the record is set and in other cases not.