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ThomasV
ThomasV

Reputation: 881

Text overflow not working for extra lines

Text.overflow doesn't apply on new lines :

Text(text,
     maxLines: 3,
     overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis)

with 3 lines with the last being too long, overflow is working, but with 4 lines, the first 3 are displayed and no ellipsis is present :

line1
line2
line3
line4

result will be

line1
line2
line3

No ellipsis added, I was expecting

line1
line2
line3...

or

line1
line2
line3
...

Any way to do that ? I would prefer to keep the breaklines.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 46

Answers (2)

Jim
Jim

Reputation: 7601

what you need is expandable_text:

ExpandableText(
        longText,
        expandText: '...',
        collapseText: '',
        maxLines: 3,
        linkColor: Colors.black,
    );

Upvotes: 1

Moaid ALRazhy
Moaid ALRazhy

Reputation: 1744

if your text contain breaklines or '\n' then it is not recognized as overflow. ellipsis will not appear if text doesn't overflow the width of the parent before interfering with breakline

try this and it will work

Text(" Lorem ipsum, or lipsum as it is sometimes known, is dummy text used in laying out print, graphic or web designs. The passage is attributed to an unknown typesetter in the 15th century who is thought to have scrambled parts of Cicero's De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum for use in a type specimen book , ipsum, or lipsum as it is sometimes known, is dummy text used in laying out print, graphic or web designs. The passage is attributed to an unknown typesetter in the 15th century who is thought to have scrambled parts of Cicero's De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum for use in a type specimen book , ipsum, or lipsum as it is sometimes known, is dummy text used in laying out print, graphic or web designs. The passage is attributed to an unknown typesetter in the 15th century who is thought to have scrambled parts of Cicero's De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum for use in a type specimen book.",
     maxLines: 3,
     overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis)

Upvotes: 0

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