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Mateo Lara
Mateo Lara

Reputation: 917

How to align text in TextInput for react-native-paper

I am using "react-native-paper": "^4.12.5" & "react-native": "0.70.4"

I want to transform the layout on the left to the one on the right using react-native-paper. But I have found a problem. I don't know how to center the input, and the placeholder of a TextInput. I would also like to hide the cursor.

what I have and what I want

I have tried to inject "textAlign" using the style prop of the paper component, but it does not seem to work, and the native props of paper do not allow this transformation. Do you know how I can adapt the paper component, or do you think I have to design my own?

import * as React from 'react';
import {StyleSheet} from 'react-native';
import {TextInput} from 'react-native-paper';
import {useTheme} from 'react-native-paper';

type textInputProps = {
  placeholder: string;
  style: object;
};

const CustomInput = ({placeholder, style}: textInputProps) => {
  const {colors} = useTheme();

  return (
    <TextInput
      mode="outlined"
      placeholder={placeholder}
      outlineColor={colors.border}
      style={(styles.custom, style)} // Here is the error!
      // style={[styles.custom, style]} This is how to do it
      theme={{roundness: 30}}
    />
  );
};

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  custom: {
    textAlign: 'center',
  },
});

export default CustomInput;

----- Edit -----

As pointed out by Vu and Nitin, it is perfectly possible to style a paper TextInput to center the cursor using the style prop and the textAlign property. My error was in the way I was passing the style prop, not the style itself.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3907

Answers (3)

Piyush Rajput
Piyush Rajput

Reputation: 86

Firstly to get TextInput and its placeholder to centre you have to modify your TextInput style:

//remove () bracket and style from style

<TextInput
 mode="outlined"
 placeholder={placeholder}
 outlineColor={colors.border}
 style={styles.custom}
 theme={{roundness: 30}}
/>

or you can directly add inLine style

<TextInput
 mode="outlined"
 placeholder={placeholder}
 outlineColor={colors.border}
 style={{
 textAlign: 'center'
 }}

Second, to hide the cursor from textInput you have to add to TextInput

caretHidden={true}

which will look like:

<TextInput
mode="outlined"
placeholder={placeholder}
outlineColor={colors.border}
style={styles.custom}
theme={{roundness: 30}}
caretHidden={true}
/>

This is how you will achieve you desired results

Upvotes: 2

M Naufal Helmi
M Naufal Helmi

Reputation: 107

maybe you can use this code on your style css

textAlignHorizontal : 'right'

Upvotes: 0

Vu Phung
Vu Phung

Reputation: 705

Syntax error found: style={(styles.custom, style)}

textAlign still work.

Change to: style={[styles.custom, style]} or style={{...styles.custom, ...style}} to resolve.

Upvotes: 3

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