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Andranik
Andranik

Reputation: 2849

Edittext scrolls parent ScrollView to the bottom when I past long text in it

I have a large layout inside a ScrollView. There are a few EditTexts Which have maxHeight set to 100dp. The problem is when I copy and past a long text into my EditText the height of it does not increase from maxHeight (which is normal), but the parent ScrollView scrolls to the end. It seems that ScrollView does not understand the maxHeight attribute of the EditText and behaves like there is no maxHeight and EditText has increased its height to wrap the content of the pasted long text. It seems this issue is fixed on Android 7+, but on older versions this problem exists.

There is nothing interesting in my layout so I will not put it here. It is just a ScrollView which has a vertical LinearLayout inside, and LinearLayout has a bunch of views and a few EditTexts like the following:

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/layout_free_text_et"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:minHeight="48dp"
            android:maxHeight="100dp"
            android:paddingStart="15dp"
            android:paddingEnd="15dp"
            android:paddingTop="10dp"
            android:paddingBottom="10dp"
            android:background="@drawable/section_background"
            android:textColor="@color/white"
            android:textColorHint="@color/gray"
            android:textSize="@dimen/section_text_size"
            android:hint="@string/hint_free_text"/>

I have tried to add different attributes to EditText, like maxLine etc. seems nothing solves the issue. I googled a lot, but there is nothing even similar to this issue anywhere. Can anybody suggest me a solution to this problem?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 95

Answers (1)

Esraa
Esraa

Reputation: 165

you can use this android:lines="2" it also makes you can scroll the EditText

Upvotes: 1

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