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any of the methods of WidgetModeration will likely make the data in the SubredditWidgets that this widget belongs to outdated.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: praw.Reddit) Any

Return an instance of cls from data.

Parameters
  • data – The structured data.

  • reddit – An instance of Reddit.