react-native/docs/Basics-Component-TextInput.md

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id: basics-component-textinput
title: TextInput
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category: Basics
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---

Direct text-based user input is a foundation for many apps. Writing a post or comment on a page is a canonical example of this. [`TextInput`](/react-native/docs/textinput.html#content) is a basic component that allows the user to enter text.

This example creates a simple `TextInput` box with the `string` `Hello` as the placeholder when the `TextInput` is empty.

```JavaScript
import React from 'react';
import { AppRegistry, TextInput, View } from 'react-native';

const App = () => {
  return (
      <View>
        <TextInput placeholder="Hello" />
      </View>
  );
}

// App registration and rendering
AppRegistry.registerComponent('MyApp', () => App);
```