I have a few widgets in a Row. Two text widgets and three custom widgets. For text to wrap into next line it needs to be inside an Expanded but if I use it always pushes search icon all the way to the right but I want it to be right after the word.
Current behaviour:
So basically I need Text that wraps into two lines if it's too long (so that it doesn't overflow to right) but is not expanded. It should be only as wide as the text. How can I achieve this?
Code:
Row(
children: [
Expanded(
child: Text('This is very long long text'),
),
SearchIcon(),
CrossIcon(),
ZeroIcon(),
],
)
You can wrap your text in "Flexible" instead of Expanded.
Expanded
Wants to fit tight into parent taking as much space as possible
Flexible
Wants to fit loose into parent taking as little space as possible for itself
For further clarification checkout Flutter: Expanded vs Flexible
Related
How to control and set the space between text lines which are soft wrapped in a flutter Text(a long string)?
I don't want to use separated lines with column or...
try this
Text("How to control and set the space between text lines which are soft wrapped in a flutter Text(a long string)? I don't want to use separated lines with column or...",
softWrap: true,
strutStyle: StrutStyle(height: 2),
),
I am using a plugin
pdf : ^3.7.1
On Using Following Code
pw.Text(Very Long Text,
style: pw.TextStyle(
fontSize: 20,
),
),
The very long text is not going in a new line it's going out of the bound of the page.
As you can see the text is cut after reaching the end. Even on using paragraph same happened.
That happens because that package can't "go inside" a single widget and split it in order to make it fit the page (or, in other cases, to create a new page).
You have to either wrap the text yourself and make it a multiline widget, or split the text yourself (maybe using something like CR or LF as separator) and divide it over different widgets.
Wrap your Text in SizedBox and give it a width
I'm having some troubles with Flutters Text widget wrapping the text at odd locations if there isn't enough space to display it in a single line:
Center(
child: Column(
mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
children: [
Text("Ready to Grow? Click to join the Tribe!",
style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.headline2,
textAlign: TextAlign.center,
)
],
),
)
In certain situations my text wraps as follows:
Ready to Grow? Click to join the Tribe
!
This looks quite ugly and I would like Flutter to wrap the line only at white spaces - how can I achieve that? I already tried softWrap and the overflow property but they don't seem to have any impact on the described behaviour...
Real world screenshot (notice the trailing "!" at the very bottom):
I find it quite interesting that you would ask this question, because I've seen a lot of people complaining about the opposite! In general, Flutter is very aggressive about "only wrap words at boundaries", almost too strict, so usually the complain I hear is: "how to make Flutter change line mid-word".
To demonstrate what I mean, look at the following GIF:
From the GIF, we can observe that, Flutter already treats "text!" and "boundaries!" as single words. It tries its best to avoid breaking between the letters and the "!" mark. When needed, it puts the whole word "boundaries!" into its own line.
However, when the screen size is too narrow, it cannot possibly fix the whole word (again, "boundaries!" is treated as a single one word), it will have to break it. Depending on the screen size, line break could happen at any point.
So overall, Flutter is doing a pretty great job on this regard. You could try to design your UI and draft your copy in a way that avoid using words that are longer than a typical screen width.
I'm trying to create a container which contains text that should automatically wrap. This works by wrapping a Expanded around my text. However, I want the container to take up as little width as possible (as wide as the text). As soon as I add Expanded to my container, the container will take up all the space.
Without Expanded, the width is good as long as the text width is smaller than the available width:
---------------------------
| Some text that won't wrap |
---------------------------
With Expanded, the text will wrap, but the container is unnecessarily wide.
--------------------------------------------------------------
| Some text that will wrap |
--------------------------------------------------------------
The Flexible widget takes only the needed space while the Expanded takes all available space.
So in your case. You should use a Flexible widget instead of the Expanded widget you have used.
Hello and thanks for any help, I'm trying to put an ellipsis at the end of a paragraph, it seems so easy to do in Flutter... but, in my case, it doesnt work with ellipsis.
It works as expected with TextOverflow.clip & TextOverflow.fade, I tried everything (put inside fixed container, flexible container...), and every, supossedly, working code I found seem to not work in my case, maybe a bug of 1.9? I have something like this:
Text(
'Tree lines text for demostration puropuse,tree lines text for demonstration purpose, lines text for demostration puropuse',
overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
maxLines: 3,
),
It works great with Text Overflow.clip & Text Overflow.fade but, with exactly the same environment, it doesn't work with Text Overflow.ellipsis.
The thing is you do not have required character to show elipsis. In another word, as name suggest your text is not overflowed to show elipsis. So, try by reducing maxLines: 3, to 1.
If you have specific character limit, you can check for the text length and add few dots by substring the text(And of course this is not preferable solution).