TextArea¶

class praw.models.TextArea(reddit, _data)¶

Class to represent a text area widget.

Find a text area in a subreddit:

widgets = reddit.subreddit("redditdev").widgets
text_area = None
for widget in widgets.sidebar:
    if isinstance(widget, praw.models.TextArea):
        text_area = widget
        break
print(text_area.text)

Create one (requires proper moderator permissions):

widgets = reddit.subreddit("redditdev").widgets
styles = {"backgroundColor": "#FFFF66", "headerColor": "#3333EE"}
text_area = widgets.mod.add_text_area("My cool title", "*Hello* **world**!", styles)

For more information on creation, see add_text_area().

Update one (requires proper moderator permissions):

new_styles = {"backgroundColor": "#FFFFFF", "headerColor": "#FF9900"}
text_area = text_area.mod.update(shortName="My fav text", styles=new_styles)

Delete one (requires proper moderator permissions):

text_area.mod.delete()

Typical Attributes

This table describes attributes that typically belong to objects of this class. Since attributes are dynamically provided (see Determine Available Attributes of an Object), there is not a guarantee that these attributes will always be present, nor is this list necessarily complete.

Attribute	Description
`id`	The widget ID.
`kind`	The widget kind (always `"textarea"`).
`shortName`	The short name of the widget.
`styles`	A `dict` with the keys `"backgroundColor"` and `"headerColor"`.
`subreddit`	The `Subreddit` the button widget belongs to.
`text`	The widget’s text, as Markdown.
`textHtml`	The widget’s text, as HTML.

__init__(reddit, _data)¶: Initialize an instance of the class.

mod()¶: Get an instance of WidgetModeration for this widget.

Note

Using any of the methods of WidgetModeration will likely make the data in the SubredditWidgets that this widget belongs to outdated. To remedy this, call refresh().

classmethod parse(data: Dict[str, Any], reddit: Reddit) → Any¶

Return an instance of cls from data.

Parameters

data – The structured data.
reddit – An instance of Reddit.