I'm very new to android and I want to reduce the size of EditText field in my layout.
For example if the user only need to enter 3 digits to the text field, then the size of the EditText should be small enough not the one provided by default.
Is that possible to do so?
Thanks in advance.
Try like this..
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
or
android:layout_width="20dp" //size your choice
In your Layout file set the attribute to that text field width as
android:layout_width="wrap_content"..This will take width as the text content entered into the field
You can use
android:layout_margin="size you want"
use can also use
android:layout_margin_left="size you want"
instead of "left" you can also right, top, bottom.
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I have a needs to limit the length of a textview to a certain number and then make the text wrap. Unfortunately using maxLength will only "crop" the text and won't make it wrapping like it should be even when using android:layout_width="wrap_content". How to achieve this feature?
Add this to your text view,
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
And add this,
android:minEms="..."
Or
android:minWidth="..."
I have an app in which the main view is a PopupWindow with a couple of ImageViews and an EditText on top of them. My problem is when I enter a very long text and the text box expands down and pushing the image views out of the view and I can't see them, and in order to see them back I need to delete some text.
What is the proper way of overcoming this?
thanks.
try to add into the XML something like that:
android:maxLines = "5"
android:scrollbars = "vertical"
Perhaps enclosing your LinearLayout of the PopupWindow in a ScrollView could help. LinearLayout does not allow for scrolling, if you are using it.
EDIT: In regards to the other answers, these will also work, but if you are intending to allow the user to enter as much text as they want, it may not be the best solution
See This question for more details
This should limit the height of the EditText, so even if the user types a long book in there, the field will keep its height limited to one line.
android:maxLines="1"
To limit the text to just one line, you can use this instead:
android:singleLine="true"
I want to give extra space to input texts in my edit text.
here is what I have now :
but I want to achieve this :
which property of edittext will do this (in xml) ?
or I have to do this in another way ?
Thanks in advance !
android:paddingLeft is the property you need. You can use it as android:paddingLeft="8dp"
Checkout this answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4619943/1739882
Add this attribute:
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
padding usually used to give an alignment to the text inside the EditText or even Buttons
please inform me if this is what you are looking for
I am having a strange issue, the words are cutting inside EDITTEXT i have set an image as background. Plz help me... for example here ffsds, is being cut, I want it to shift to bit right so that it doesnt get cut.
Increase paddingLeft value of edit text.
...
android:paddingLeft="100dp"
...
in xml layout.
Increasing the left padding is the easy solution. But if this smiley image is always on the left of the edittext, you can set the image by using the attribute android:drawableLeft on the edittext.
hi all i have a lil problem in android edit text
actually i made an app in which i m using two text fields for user name and password and set EditText size manually like in 200dip format. now when there is no text in the Edit Text it is in perfect size like in the image below but when we start typing text and the text exceeds the size of editText Field then it Expand downwards like in second image below.
What I want is that when text exceeds the size of EditText, it should not Change its size. please help
android:singleLine="true" should work.
add this property for EditText and check...
android:singleLine="true"
You have to do your ExitText to be single line. You can use android:singleLine but it is deprecated and it's replaced by android:inputType. Use android:inputType=text for single line and android:inputType=textMultiline for multiline
android:maxLines="1"
Another property...