# Text Area not coming through correctly on new template?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/text-area-not-coming-through-correctly-on-new-template/78389>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, vision\
**Created:** [August 25, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/text-area-not-coming-through-correctly-on-new-template/78389 "2023-08-25T12:30:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![bkarabinchak.psi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bkarabinchak.psi/32/83567_2.png) [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/text-area-not-coming-through-correctly-on-new-template/78389/1 "2023-08-25T12:30:30Z")

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Using Vision in 8.1.26.

Making a new template. I dragged a text area into and it's transparent? Doesn't come through like that dragging a text area onto a new window directly. Other text components text field/numeric text field come through fine -

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/a/8/a8f6476364a6cdd4350c9c06b0a6c6a562520b34.png)

Doesn't fix itself when instantiated either -

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/b/f/bf3c6c4f1be0ff3e0d81115137d15d71ce854862.png)

Dragging a text area directly onto a window looks fine -

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/4/8/48afbf642b0dce511a2935c624fd4a4a2bd2f584.png)

Known bug? Or am I missing some required to use a text area in a template?

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/text-area-not-coming-through-correctly-on-new-template/78389/2 "2023-08-25T12:55:55Z")

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This feels kinda familiar, but from a long time ago. I'll check it out in a bit.

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**Author:** ![bkarabinchak.psi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bkarabinchak.psi/32/83567_2.png) [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/text-area-not-coming-through-correctly-on-new-template/78389/3 "2023-08-25T17:36:11Z")

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FWIW changing the foreground color to anything other than white, then changing it back to white, made things look normal. So not a show stopper.

Edit: Also, putting a container on the template and putting the text area into the container works as expected. So it only seems if the text area goes right onto the template canvas.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/text-area-not-coming-through-correctly-on-new-template/78389/4 "2023-08-25T17:49:04Z")

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Yeah, I think it's just that the text area 'defaults' to the container's background color, which for templates is transparent...so there's nothing to render.

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**Author:** ![bkarabinchak.psi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bkarabinchak.psi/32/83567_2.png) [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/text-area-not-coming-through-correctly-on-new-template/78389/5 "2023-08-25T17:52:59Z")

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Got it makes sense. Easily remedied enough. Don't know if this qualifies as a bug then, but certainly something for a designer to remember. Left my scratching my head for a minute.