How to allow multi-line in Android's EditText view?
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By default all the EditText widgets in Android are multi-lined.
Here is some sample code:
<EditText android:inputType="textMultiLine" <!-- Multiline input --> android:lines="8" <!-- Total Lines prior display --> android:minLines="6" <!-- Minimum lines --> android:gravity="top|start" <!-- Cursor Position --> android:maxLines="10" <!-- Maximum Lines --> android:layout_height="wrap_content" <!-- Height determined by content --> android:layout_width="match_parent" <!-- Fill entire width --> android:scrollbars="vertical" <!-- Vertical Scroll Bar -->
/>You may find it better to use:
<EditText
...
android:inputType="textMultiLine"
/>This is because android:singleLine is deprecated.
This works for me, actually these 2 attributes are important: inputType and lines. Besides, you may need a scrollbar, the code below shows how to make one:
<EditText android:id="@+id/addr_edittext" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:gravity="top|left" android:inputType="textEmailAddress|textMultiLine" android:lines="20" android:minLines="5" android:scrollHorizontally="false" android:scrollbars="vertical" />This is how I applied the code snippet below and it's working fine. Hope, this would help somebody.
<EditText android:id="@+id/EditText02" android:gravity="top|left" android:inputType="textMultiLine" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:lines="5" android:scrollHorizontally="false"
/>Cheers! ...Thanks.
EditText has singleLine property. You can set in the XML or by calling setSingleLine(false);
Try this, add these lines to your edit text view, i'll add mine. make sure you understand it
android:overScrollMode="always"
android:scrollbarStyle="insideInset"
android:scrollbars="vertical"
<EditText android:inputType="textMultiLine" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/editText_newprom_description" android:padding="10dp" android:lines="5" android:overScrollMode="always" android:scrollbarStyle="insideInset" android:minLines="5" android:gravity="top|left" android:scrollbars="vertical" android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"/>and on your java class make on click listner to this edit text as follows, i'll add mine, chane names according to yours.
EditText description;
description = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText_newprom_description);
description.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() { @Override public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent motionEvent) { view.getParent().requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(true); switch (motionEvent.getAction() & MotionEvent.ACTION_MASK){ case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP: view.getParent().requestDisallowInterceptTouchEvent(false); break; } return false; } });this works fine for me
1if some one is using AppCompatEditText then you need to set inputType="textMultiLine" here is the code you can copy
<androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatEditText android:padding="@dimen/_8sdp" android:id="@+id/etNote" android:minLines="6" android:singleLine="false" android:lines="8" android:scrollbars="vertical" android:background="@drawable/rounded_border" android:layout_width="0dp" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginStart="@dimen/_25sdp" android:layout_marginTop="32dp" android:layout_marginEnd="@dimen/_25sdp" android:autofillHints="" android:gravity="start|top" android:inputType="textMultiLine" />for background
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <shape android:shape="rectangle" xmlns:android=""> <corners android:radius="@dimen/_5sdp"/> <stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#C8C8C8"/> </shape>android:inputType="textMultiLine"This code line work for me. Add this code you edittext in your xml file.
Just add this android:inputType="textMultiLine"
in XML file on relevant field.
All of these are nice but will not work in case you have your edittext inside upper level scroll view :) Perhaps most common example is "Settings" view that has so many items that the they go beyond of visible area. In this case you put them all into scroll view to make settings scrollable. In case that you need multiline scrollable edit text in your settings, its scroll will not work.
0To disable number of lines that was previously assigned in theme use xml attribute: android:lines="@null"
<EditText android:id="@id/editText" //id of editText android:gravity="start" // Where to start Typing android:inputType="textMultiLine" // multiline android:imeOptions="actionDone" // Keyboard done button android:minLines="5" // Min Line of editText android:hint="@string/Enter Data" // Hint in editText android:layout_width="match_parent" //width editText android:layout_height="wrap_content" //height editText /> I learned this from , though I don't like the website myself. If you want multiline BUT want to retain the enter button as a post button, set the listview's "horizontally scrolling" to false.
android:scrollHorizontally="false"
If it doesn't work in xml, doing it programmatically weirdly works.
listView.setHorizontallyScrolling(false);
Another neat thing to do is to use android:minHeight along with android:layout_height="wrap_content". This way you can set the size of the edit when it's empty, and when the user inputs stuff, it stretches according to how much the user inputs, including multiple lines.
<EditText android:hint="Address" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1" android:inputType="textMultiLine|textNoSuggestions" android:id="@+id/edittxtAddress" android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/textsize2" android:textColor="@android:color/white" android:scrollbars="vertical" android:minLines="2" android:textStyle="normal" />and in Activity to remove "\n" is user press nextline
String editStr= edittxtAddress.getText().toString().trim(); MyString= editStr.replaceAll("\n"," ");
