# Vision Text Area usage issue **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [August 13, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-text-area-usage-issue/37688 "2020-08-13T17:45:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rusty](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/rusty/32/19859_2.png) [@Rusty](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rusty)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-text-area-usage-issue/37688/1 "2020-08-13T17:45:22Z")
Hello, I am experiencing an issue which likely has a simple solution. I am trying to implement a text area box from the input category on the component palette. I have an OPC string tag linked to the Text property of the Text Area. I can read the string from the tag in the Text area, but if I write in the text area, the tag does not get written to and the text area retains the text I typed instead of the read value of the tag. I can read from and write to the OPC string tag using a text field without a problem. I feel like I would need to press submit or something, what am I doing wrong? Thanks, Rusty ---
**Author:** ![bpreston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@bpreston](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bpreston)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-text-area-usage-issue/37688/2 "2020-08-13T18:00:00Z")
I’m assuming you set your text binding to “Bidirectional”? ---
**Author:** ![Rusty](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/rusty/32/19859_2.png) [@Rusty](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Rusty)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-text-area-usage-issue/37688/3 "2020-08-13T18:02:50Z")
Thank you, that was it, I was missing the checkbox. I figured it was something simple like that 🙂