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Unity Input Field Crash Guide

A simple guide to understanding how InputField works

Daniele Quero, PhD
5 min readMay 2, 2024

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An Input Field in Unity is a UI component that allows text input and editing to the user. Along with buttons and texts, it is one of the main basic UI elements in any framework.

To create a new Input Field in your canvas, access the creation menu, the UI section and finally the Input Field item. This will create a new canvas Unity UI object based on TMP. If you want to stick to simple text-based UI objects, you need to…

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Daniele Quero, PhD

A professional developer with passion for game developing and skill-growing. A former Nuclear Physics Researcher who changed his life to pursue his dreams