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Eduardo
Eduardo

Reputation: 1199

TextView multiline

I have a TextView that is populated with a text that is taken from a database, so its lenth is undefined.

I have configured the TextView using the maxline attribute, and I have set its value to 3, because I don't want more than 3 lines of text, and also I use the ellipsize attribute.

But It doesn't work properly. Although the text is larger than 3 lines, it only prints two lines.

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/etLugar"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/tvLugar"        
    android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/tvLugar"
    android:text="A very large text than must be shown in the textview, but no more of three lines are going to be shown"
    android:textColor="@color/foreground1"        
    android:maxLines="3"
    android:ellipsize="end"        
    android:textSize="12dp" 
    />

I don't understand why maxlines attribute is is not working properly. What I'm doing wrong?

Thanks

Upvotes: 4

Views: 11532

Answers (5)

3c71
3c71

Reputation: 4511

I'm having a similar issue with 2 TextView, one is supposed to have maxLines="2" and the other maxLines="4".

The first was always on a single line, regardless of the ellipsize setting I add. The second didn't matter and text was using as many lines it needed!

It seems to depends on 2 factors:

  1. The other elements of your layout
  2. The textAppearance if set may break/override this setting or a singleLine option

To solve this I added code to do that directly on the text views:

tv1.setMaxLines(2);
tv2.setMaxLines(4);

And that did the trick.

Upvotes: 0

Rajesh
Rajesh

Reputation: 2618

Because of you have less content that has two line only, it was work perfectly which you wrote code(xml) enter more content in string then try it.

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Upvotes: 0

karan
karan

Reputation: 8843

i guess it is due to android:singleLine="false" which is default value try and change it to TRUE tell if it works.

Upvotes: 3

Ionică Bizău
Ionică Bizău

Reputation: 113335

There is same question Android ellipsize multiline textview. This is known bug, quite old and not fixed yet.

Someone posted workaround Android Textview Multiline Ellipse/ maybe it will help you (or someone else).

Upvotes: 0

SamSPICA
SamSPICA

Reputation: 1366

Don't use the ellipsize attribute, just android:maxlines="3" should work.

Upvotes: -1

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