What are the different types of attributes that can be added to a lightning component?

What are the different types of attributes that can be added to a lightning component?

Types of Attributes:

  • String :- It stores simple text values like color, name etc.
  • Boolean :- It stores boolean values like true or false.
  • Decimal :- It stores values with fractional part.
  • Integer :- It stores integer/Number values like quantity etc.
  • Double :- It stores fractional values like price, currency values.

What is attribute in lightning?

Lightning Component Attribute (aura:attribute) are like member variables on a class in Apex. tag is used to add an attribute to the lightning component and Salesforce lightning App. Each attribute must have “name” and “type“. To make attribute as required use required=”true” in the tag.

How to get field value of lightning-input in Lightning web component?

The default is text. Let’s create a Lightning web component where all types of lightning-input will be used and will have onchange handlers defined to fetch the value dynamically and store the same in property defined.

How to edit a field in Salesforce Lightning?

Represents an editable input for a field on a Salesforce object. Use the lightning-input-field component in lightning-record-edit-form to display and edit the value of a record field of a Salesforce object. Use the field-name attribute to specify the API field name.

Where do I find field names in Lightning?

Use the field-name attribute to specify the API field name. For standard and custom objects, find the field names in Lightning Experience from Setup > Object Manager > (object-name) > Fields & Relationships. Standard object fields are documented in Standard Objects.

How to override display density in Lightning input field?

To override the display density of the parent form, use the variant attribute in lightning-input-field. When the parent form uses the compact density, you can reduce the whitespace between the label and field using the slds-form-element_1-col class on lightning-input-field.