# layout.field

One form field: its label, input, help text and error

Component: [`<Layout>`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/components/layout.md) · Renders: `<div>` · Profile: [UI](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/ui.md)

## Example

```tsx
<Layout intent="layout.field">
  …
</Layout>
```

## Choosing between neighbours

Find the row that describes your element, and use the intent on the right.

| If it is for… | Use |
|---|---|
| One form field: its label, input, help text and error | `layout.field` (this page) |
| A setting switched or picked in place, with its label beside the control | [`layout.setting`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/layout/setting.md) |
| A single field with its label and messages (rather than [`layout.form`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/layout/form.md)) | `layout.field` (this page) |
| A field typed into, with its label above (rather than [`layout.setting`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/layout/setting.md)) | `layout.field` (this page) |

## Connections

Declared in the registry, both directions. Where an intent is used in your own code is something check and the gallery see; this site has no app code.

- Built from: [`arrange.stack`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/ui.md#arrange-stack)

## For registry authors

**Starter intents.** These are the intents `prongs add` puts in your registry, shown in this site’s theme. Yours are your own `registry.ts`: rename, restyle and add to them, and see them with `prongs add gallery`.

What this intent is built from and its entry in `components/prongs/registry.ts`. You only need this to change how it looks or to add an intent like it.

How layout.field resolves, and its definition

Each layer adds to the one before it; a later class wins over an earlier one that sets the same thing.

- [`arrange.stack`](https://www.prongs.dev/docs/intents/ui.md#arrange-stack) — Children in a column, free to shrink inside a row or grid

  ```
  flex min-w-0 flex-col
  ```

- `layout.field` (this page) — One form field: its label, input, help text and error

  ```
  gap-1.5
  ```

Final classes

```
flex min-w-0 flex-col gap-1.5
```

Definition

```ts
'layout.field': {
  kind: 'semantic',
  description: 'One form field: its label, input, help text and error',
  refs: ['arrange.stack'],
  binding: { classes: 'gap-1.5' },
  notFor: [
    {
      context: 'a setting switched or picked in place, with its label beside the control',
      instead: 'layout.setting',
    },
  ],
},
```