Text entry interaction

3.2.3 Text Interaction — an inline interaction that accepts text from the candidate.

Also see the attributes shared by every interaction on the overview page. This is an inline interaction (isInline is true) — it’s meant to sit inside flowing text, not as a standalone block. Unlike the block interactions, it renders no prompt slot; a <qti-prompt> placed inside it renders as a plain sibling.

Example

The capital of France is .

<p>
  The capital of France is
  <qti-text-entry-interaction response-identifier="RESPONSE" expected-length="15"></qti-text-entry-interaction>.
</p>

qti-text-entry-interaction

Attribute	Type	Notes
expected-length	number	Expected answer length — used as a styling hook (qti-input-width-* classes), not enforced as a hard character limit.
pattern-mask	string	Regex applied to the native <input pattern>. If it’s exactly [0-9]*, the input’s type becomes number; otherwise text.
placeholder-text	string	Sets the input’s placeholder.
data-patternmask-message	string (dataset attribute)	Custom validity message shown when pattern-mask fails.

Renders a single shadow-DOM <input part="input">, with showCorrectResponse adding a <div part="correct"> showing the correct text.