diff --git a/Nasal/canvas/gui.nas b/Nasal/canvas/gui.nas
index a01af5e76..98869c87d 100644
--- a/Nasal/canvas/gui.nas
+++ b/Nasal/canvas/gui.nas
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ loadGUIFile("styles/DefaultStyle.nas");
 loadWidget("Button");
 loadWidget("CheckBox");
 loadWidget("Label");
+loadWidget("LineEdit");
 loadWidget("ScrollArea");
 loadDialog("MessageBox");
 
diff --git a/Nasal/canvas/gui/Widget.nas b/Nasal/canvas/gui/Widget.nas
index 95955bcd2..bcbd1c492 100644
--- a/Nasal/canvas/gui/Widget.nas
+++ b/Nasal/canvas/gui/Widget.nas
@@ -85,6 +85,9 @@ gui.Widget = {
     me._focused = 1;
     canvas._focused_widget = me;
 
+    if( me._view != nil )
+      me._view._root.setFocus();
+
     me._trigger("focus-in");
     me._onStateChange();
 
@@ -98,6 +101,7 @@ gui.Widget = {
 
     me._focused = 0;
     me.getCanvas()._focused_widget = nil;
+    me.getCanvas().clearFocusElement();
 
     me._trigger("focus-out");
     me._onStateChange();
diff --git a/Nasal/canvas/gui/styles/DefaultStyle.nas b/Nasal/canvas/gui/styles/DefaultStyle.nas
index cc8008e4a..4d3de27fa 100644
--- a/Nasal/canvas/gui/styles/DefaultStyle.nas
+++ b/Nasal/canvas/gui/styles/DefaultStyle.nas
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ DefaultStyle.widgets.button = {
   }
 };
 
-# A checbox
+# A checkbox
 DefaultStyle.widgets.checkbox = {
   new: func(parent, cfg)
   {
@@ -293,6 +293,96 @@ DefaultStyle.widgets.label = {
   }
 };
 
+# A one line text input field
+DefaultStyle.widgets["line-edit"] = {
+  new: func(parent, cfg)
+  {
+    me._hpadding = cfg.get("hpadding", 8);
+
+    me._root = parent.createChild("group", "line-edit");
+    me._border =
+      me._root.createChild("image", "border")
+              .set("slice", "10 12"); #"7")
+    me._text =
+      me._root.createChild("text", "input")
+              .set("font", "LiberationFonts/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf")
+              .set("character-size", 14)
+              .set("alignment", "left-baseline")
+              .set("clip-frame", Element.PARENT);
+    me._cursor =
+      me._root.createChild("path", "cursor")
+              .set("stroke", "#333")
+              .set("stroke-width", 1)
+              .moveTo(me._hpadding, 5)
+              .vert(10);
+    me._hscroll = 0;
+  },
+  setSize: func(model, w, h)
+  {
+    me._border.setSize(w, h);
+    me._text.set(
+      "clip",
+      "rect(0, " ~ (w - me._hpadding) ~ ", " ~ h ~ ", " ~ me._hpadding ~ ")"
+    );
+    me._cursor.setDouble("coord[2]", h - 10);
+
+    return me.update(model);
+  },
+  setText: func(model, text)
+  {
+    me._text.set("text", text);
+    model._onStateChange();
+  },
+  update: func(model)
+  {
+    var backdrop = !model._windowFocus();
+    var file = me._style._dir_widgets ~ "/";
+
+    if( backdrop )
+      file ~= "backdrop-";
+
+    file ~= "entry";
+
+    if( !model._enabled )
+      file ~= "-disabled";
+    else if( model._focused and !backdrop )
+      file ~= "-focused";
+
+    me._border.set("src", file ~ ".png");
+
+    var color_name = backdrop ? "backdrop_fg_color" : "fg_color";
+    me._text.set("fill", me._style.getColor(color_name));
+
+    me._cursor.setVisible(model._enabled and model._focused and !backdrop);
+
+    var width = model._size[0] - 2 * me._hpadding;
+    var cursor_pos = me._text.getCursorPos(0, model._cursor)[0];
+    var text_width = me._text.getCursorPos(0, me._text.lineLength(0))[0];
+
+    if( text_width <= width )
+      # fit -> align left (TODO handle different alignment)
+      me._hscroll = 0;
+    else if( me._hscroll + cursor_pos > width )
+      # does not fit, cursor to the right
+      me._hscroll = width - cursor_pos;
+    else if( me._hscroll + cursor_pos < 0 )
+      # does not fit, cursor to the left
+      me._hscroll = -cursor_pos;
+    else if( me._hscroll + text_width < width )
+      # does not fit, limit scroll to align with right side
+      me._hscroll = width - text_width;
+
+    var text_pos = me._hscroll + me._hpadding;
+
+    me._text
+      .setTranslation(text_pos, model._size[1] / 2 + 5)
+      .update();
+    me._cursor
+      .setDouble("coord[0]", text_pos + cursor_pos)
+      .update();
+  }
+};
+
 # ScrollArea
 DefaultStyle.widgets["scroll-area"] = {
   new: func(parent, cfg)
diff --git a/Nasal/canvas/gui/widgets/Button.nas b/Nasal/canvas/gui/widgets/Button.nas
index 03ba3a5e2..e18532309 100644
--- a/Nasal/canvas/gui/widgets/Button.nas
+++ b/Nasal/canvas/gui/widgets/Button.nas
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ gui.widgets.Button = {
 # protected:
   _setView: func(view)
   {
+    call(gui.Widget._setView, [view], me);
+
     var el = view._root;
     el.addEventListener("mousedown", func if( me._enabled ) me.setDown(1));
     el.addEventListener("mouseup",   func if( me._enabled ) me.setDown(0));
@@ -64,7 +66,5 @@ gui.widgets.Button = {
 
     el.addEventListener("mouseleave",func me.setDown(0));
     el.addEventListener("drag", func(e) e.stopPropagation());
-
-    call(gui.Widget._setView, [view], me);
   }
 };
diff --git a/Nasal/canvas/gui/widgets/LineEdit.nas b/Nasal/canvas/gui/widgets/LineEdit.nas
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..812966661
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Nasal/canvas/gui/widgets/LineEdit.nas
@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+gui.widgets.LineEdit = {
+  new: func(parent, style, cfg)
+  {
+    var m = gui.Widget.new(gui.widgets.LineEdit);
+    m._cfg = Config.new(cfg);
+    m._focus_policy = m.StrongFocus;
+    m._setView( style.createWidget(parent, "line-edit", m._cfg) );
+    
+    m.setLayoutMinimumSize([28, 16]);
+    m.setLayoutSizeHint([150, 28]);
+
+    m._text = "";
+    m._max_length = 32767;
+    m._cursor = 0;
+    m._selection_start = 0;
+    m._selection_end = 0;
+
+    return m;
+  },
+  setMaxLength: func(len)
+  {
+    me._max_length = len;
+
+    if( utf8.size(me._text) <= len )
+      return;
+
+    me._text = utf8.substr(me._text, 0, me._max_length);
+    me.moveCursor(me._cursor);
+  },
+  moveCursor: func(pos, mark = 0)
+  {
+    var len = utf8.size(me._text);
+    me._cursor = math.max(0, math.min(pos, len));
+
+    me._selection_start = me._cursor;
+    me._selection_end = me._cursor;
+
+    me._onStateChange();
+  },
+  home: func()
+  {
+    me.moveCursor(0);
+  },
+  end: func()
+  {
+    me.moveCursor(utf8.size(me._text));
+  },
+  # Insert given text after cursor (and first remove selection if set)
+  insert: func(text)
+  {
+    var after = utf8.substr(me._text, me._selection_end);
+    me._text = utf8.substr(me._text, 0, me._selection_start);
+
+    # Replace selected text, insert new text and place cursor after inserted
+    # text
+    var remaining = me._max_length - me._selection_start - utf8.size(after);
+    if( remaining != 0 )
+      me._text ~= utf8.substr(text, 0, remaining);
+
+    me._cursor = utf8.size(me._text);
+    me._selection_start = me._cursor;
+    me._selection_end = me._cursor;
+
+    me._text ~= after;
+
+    if( me._view != nil )
+      me._view.setText(me, me._text);
+  },
+  paste: func(mode = nil)
+  {
+    me.insert(clipboard.getText(mode != nil ? mode : clipboard.CLIPBOARD));
+  },
+  # Remove selected text
+  removeSelection: func()
+  {
+    if( me._selection_start == me._selection_end )
+      return;
+
+    me._text = utf8.substr(me._text, 0, me._selection_start)
+             ~ utf8.substr(me._text, me._selection_end);
+
+    me._cursor = me._selection_start;
+    me._selection_end = me._selection_start;
+
+    if( me._view != nil )
+      me._view.setText(me, me._text);
+  },
+  # Remove selection or if nothing is selected the character before the cursor
+  backspace: func()
+  {
+    if( me._selection_start == me._selection_end )
+    {
+      if( me._selection_start == 0 )
+        # Before first character...
+        return;
+
+      me._selection_start -= 1;
+    }
+
+    me.removeSelection();
+  },
+  # Remove selection or if nothing is selected the character after the cursor
+  del: func()
+  {
+    if( me._selection_start == me._selection_end )
+    {
+      if( me._selection_end == utf8.size(me._text) )
+        # After last character...
+        return;
+
+      me._selection_end += 1;
+    }
+
+    me.removeSelection();
+  },
+# protected:
+  _setView: func(view)
+  {
+    call(gui.Widget._setView, [view], me);
+
+    var el = view._root;
+    el.addEventListener("keypress", func (e) me.insert(e.key));
+    el.addEventListener("keydown", func (e)
+    {
+      if( me._view == nil )
+        return;
+
+      if( e.key == "Backspace" )
+        me.backspace();
+      else if( e.key == "Delete" )
+        me.del();
+      else if( e.key == "Left" )
+        me.moveCursor(me._cursor - 1);
+      else if( e.key == "Right")
+        me.moveCursor(me._cursor + 1);
+      else if( e.key == "Home" )
+        me.home();
+      else if( e.key == "End" )
+        me.end();
+      else if( e.keyCode == `v` and e.ctrlKey )
+        me.paste();
+    });
+  }
+};
diff --git a/Nasal/canvas/gui/widgets/ScrollArea.nas b/Nasal/canvas/gui/widgets/ScrollArea.nas
index e1ba7ebe1..810e84953 100644
--- a/Nasal/canvas/gui/widgets/ScrollArea.nas
+++ b/Nasal/canvas/gui/widgets/ScrollArea.nas
@@ -119,6 +119,8 @@ gui.widgets.ScrollArea = {
 # protected:
   _setView: func(view)
   {
+    call(gui.Widget._setView, [view], me);
+
     view.vert.addEventListener("mousedown", func(e) me._dragStart(e));
     view.horiz.addEventListener("mousedown", func(e) me._dragStart(e));
     view._root.addEventListener("mousedown", func(e)
@@ -177,8 +179,6 @@ gui.widgets.ScrollArea = {
         e.stopPropagation();
       }
     );
-
-    call(gui.Widget._setView, [view], me);
   },
   _dragStart: func(e)
   {
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