- 🇺🇸United States dave reid Nebraska USA
"Description" fields also make perfect sense to use with Text (Formatted) because I want to enforce a 100-300 maximum character length, but the fields may contain HTML. I don't agree about deprecating the field type, I'd rather be able to use the textarea widgets on it. I think we should take https://www.drupal.org/project/textarea_widget_for_text → and make a core patch out of it.
- 🇺🇸United States dave reid Nebraska USA
I opened ✨ Allow textarea widgets to be used for text (formatted) fields Needs work to propose allow the textarea fields for these field types in core.
- Status changed to Postponed: needs info
4 days ago 4:56pm 10 July 2025 - 🇺🇸United States smustgrave
Know we are planning to deprecate 🌱 [Meta] Deprecate text_with_summary Active do we want to really deprecate both?
- 🇺🇸United States dalemoore
I'm also against deprecating this field as I'm also using the textarea widget for text fields module for the exact same use cases: for adding strong, italics, exponents, etc. in title fields, SDC props, and other short text fields where it doesn't make sense for a full textarea/longtext field. I see I commented in the other issue 2 years ago, and just want to say it still works very well. I have custom text formats explicitly limiting the number of buttons that are used in the CKEditor for these fields.