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Li Fumin
Li Fumin

Reputation: 1453

Why doesn't SwiftUI's Text display tab space under some circumstances?

For example, I have this string for Text: Incoming event 0 111.(There are two tab spaces between 0 and 111.)

When there is enough width space to show it,it is fine.

But if there isn't enough width space to show it in a single line, it wraps into two lines,and the tab spaces disappear magically(At least one of the tab spaces does,if not both of them).

Is this a bug or did I miss something?(It is a macOS App)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 401

Answers (2)

ChrisR
ChrisR

Reputation: 12125

I did a quick check with user input and to me it seems like it's working fine ... isn't that the behavior you want?

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            TextField("Input", text: $input)
            
            Text(input)
                .frame(width: 300, alignment: .leading)
                .border(.red)
            
            Text(input)
                .frame(width: 150, alignment: .leading)
                .border(.red)

Upvotes: 0

ChrisR
ChrisR

Reputation: 12125

It works fine if you code tab as \t in the string. Otherwise the tab key is translated into spaces, which will sometimes be ignored in line breaking.

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        VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 30) {
            
            Text("Incoming event 0\t\t111")
                .frame(width: 300, alignment: .leading)
                .border(.red)
            
            Text("Incoming event 0\t\t111")
                .frame(width: 150, alignment: .leading)
                .border(.red)
        }

Upvotes: 1

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