Does this multi-line form interface pattern have a name?

Question

I've got a form where the user needs to enter a number of records (varies for each screen), and the UI approach I'm considering is to have multiple rows, with the ability to add and remove rows, something akin to:

    -------- -------- X
    -------- -------- X
 +  -------- -------- X

Where clicking + adds another row, and clicking X removes a particular row. I'm interested to know of there are any names for this pattern so I can find appropriate documentation for the app framework we're using to develop it (it's a somewhat clunky RAD framework - so we've got a bit of work to do to make it do what we need).

Answer 1

I don't know if this is a widely or generally used term but in the world of Wordpress custom fields, this kind of pattern is referred to as a "repeater". A repeater can be a repeating text field, a repeating image input, repeating anything. So in your case it would just be referred to as a "repeater text field".

Hope that helps! Here's a link to a popular Wordpress plugin that allows for the easy creation of custom repeater fields. There's a video there that might help illustrate how the ui pattern looks: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/repeater/

Also in searching the web for "repeater ui" pattern I found a bunch of websites using the term for similar things so I think that this is probably one of the more popular options.