How to make an EditorGUILayout.TextField accept multi-line input in a custom inspector?

In a regular inspector:

[TextArea(4, 100)] [SerializeField] private string message;

Will expand a text field and let it accept multiple lines, with enter as opposed to needing \n. One the other hand:

script.message = EditorGUILayout.TextField("Message: ", script.message, GUILayout.Height(80));

Will also expand the text field, but does not allow for multiple line input. How can I get my custom inspector to behave the same way as the regular one and accept multi-line input?

 

Moments after posting, I figured it out.

EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(message, GUILayout.Height(80));

 

You'd use a TextArea instead.

 

No, you wouldn't. A TextArea works completely differently.

 

What works "completely differently"? A TextArea is a TextField that accepts multiple lines. From what you've literally said, you're looking for a TextArea (instead of a TextField specifically, which is what I was addressing in my initial post; PropertyField is a valid alternative since it takes attribute drawers into account).

 

A TextArea isn't really a TextField that accepts multiple lines. It's literally just an area you can write text into and nothing more. No graphics of any kind. It's a much lower level thing.

 

Graphics?

I'm confused as to what you think a text field should be able to do. "An area you can write text into" seems like a pretty apt description of both a TextField and a TextArea to me.

 

To add onto this, from the descriptions given in the Unity API documentation:

TextField - Make a single-line text field where the user can edit a string.
TextArea - Make a multi-line text field where the user can edit a string.