restrict edittext to single line

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possible duplicate   android-singleline-true-not-working-for-edittext   lt EditText      android id    id searchbox        android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  wrap content      android lines  1      android scrollHorizontally  true      android ellipsize  end      android layout weight  1      android layout marginTop  2dp      android drawablePadding  10dp      android background   drawable edittext      android drawableLeft   drawable folder full      android drawableRight   drawable search      android paddingLeft  15dp      android hint  search     gt   lt  EditText gt    I want to make the above EditText to have only single line  Even if the user presses  enter  the cursor should not get down to the second line  Can anybody help me doing that

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Use Below Code instead of your code   lt EditText      android id    id searchbox        android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  wrap content      android maxLines  1      android inputType  text      android scrollHorizontally  true      android ellipsize  end      android layout weight  1      android layout marginTop  2dp      android drawablePadding  10dp      android background   drawable edittext      android drawableLeft   drawable folder full      android drawableRight   drawable search      android paddingLeft  15dp      android hint  search      gt

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android singleLine is now deprecated  From the documentation   This constant was deprecated in API level 3  This attribute is deprecated  Use maxLines instead to change the layout of a static text  and use the textMultiLine flag in the inputType attribute instead for editable text views  if both singleLine and inputType are supplied  the inputType flags will override the value of singleLine    So you could just set android inputType  quot textEmailSubject quot  or any other value that matches the content of the field

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for me i do it like this   go to your textView in xml file and add this two lines   android maxLines  quot 1 quot  android inputType  quot text quot

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The  Aleks G OnKeyListener   works really well  but I ran it from MainActivity and so had to modify it slightly   EditText searchBox    EditText  findViewById R id searchbox   searchBox setOnKeyListener new OnKeyListener          public boolean onKey View v  int keyCode  KeyEvent event             if  event getAction      KeyEvent ACTION DOWN  amp  amp  keyCode    KeyEvent KEYCODE ENTER                  if the enter key was pressed  then hide the keyboard and do whatever needs doing              InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  MainActivity this getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE               imm hideSoftInputFromWindow searchBox getApplicationWindowToken    0                  do what you need on your enter key press here              return true                     return false              I hope this helps anyone trying to do the same

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please try this code  android inputType  textPersonName

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This will work for the EditText   android inputType  text    Then I would set a max length for the input text   android maxLines  1    Those are the 2 that are needed now

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android maxLines  1  android inputType  text    Add the above code to have a single line in EditText tag in your layout   android singleLine  true  is deprecated      This constant was deprecated in API level 3       This attribute is deprecated  Use maxLines instead to change the   layout of a static text  and use the textMultiLine flag in the   inputType attribute instead for editable text views  if both   singleLine and inputType are supplied  the inputType flags will   override the value of singleLine

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android imeOptions  actionDone    worked for me

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As  android singleLine  true  is now Depreciated so use  android maxLines  1   Use maxLines instead to change the layout of a static text  and use the textMultiLine flag in the inputType attribute instead for editable text views  if both singleLine and inputType are supplied  the inputType flags will override the value of singleLine

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Include  android singleLine  true

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You must add this line in your EditText  android maxLines  1    and another thing  don t forget set  android inputType  whatever you want  text  phone     but you must set it

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Use android maxLines  1  and android inputType  text   You forgot the android maxLines attribute  And refer for android inputType With your example  below will give this result     lt EditText      android id    id searchbox        android layout width  match parent      android layout height  wrap content      android maxLines  1      android inputType  text      android scrollHorizontally  true      android ellipsize  end      android layout weight  1      android layout marginTop  2dp      android drawablePadding  10dp      android background   drawable edittext      android drawableLeft   drawable folder full      android drawableRight   drawable search      android paddingLeft  15dp      android hint  search     gt   lt  EditText gt

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Everyone s showing the XML way  except one person showed calling EditText s setMaxLines method   However  when I did that  it didn t work   One thing that did work for me was setting the input type   EditText editText   new EditText this   editText setInputType InputType TYPE CLASS TEXT     This allows A-Z  a-z  0-9  and special characters  but does not allow enter to be pressed   When you press enter  it ll go to the next GUI component  if applicable in your application   You may also want to set the maximum number of characters that can be put into that EditText  or else it ll push whatever s to the right of it off the screen  or just start trailing off the screen itself   You can do this like this   InputFilter   filters   new InputFilter 1   filters 0    new InputFilter LengthFilter 8   editText setFilters filters     This sets the max characters to 8 in that EditText   Hope all this helps you

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At XML file  Just add  android maxLines  1

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use      android ellipsize  end  android maxLines  1

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Using android singleLine  true  is deprecated   Just add your input type and set maxline to 1 and everything will work fine  android inputType  text  android maxLines  1

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In order to restrict you just need to set the single line option on  true    android singleLine  true

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Add this line to your edittext  android inputType  text

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You must add this line in your EditText in xml   android maxLines  1

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Programatically   textView setMaxLines 1

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Also it s important to pay attention if the property android inputType is textMultiLine  If so  the properties android singleLine  android imeOptions  android ellipsize and android maxLines will be ignored and your EditText will accepted MultiLines anyway

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I have done this in the past with android singleLine  true  and then adding a listener for the  enter  key     EditText this findViewById R id mytext   setOnKeyListener new OnKeyListener          public boolean onKey View v  int keyCode  KeyEvent event             if  event getAction      KeyEvent ACTION DOWN  amp  amp  keyCode    KeyEvent KEYCODE ENTER                  if the enter key was pressed  then hide the keyboard and do whatever needs doing              InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager context getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE               imm hideSoftInputFromWindow getApplicationWindowToken    0                  do what you need on your enter key press here              return true                     return false

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in XML File add this properties in Edit Text   android maxLines  1

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Now android singleLine attribute is deprecated  Please add these attributes to your EditText for an EditText to be single line   android inputType  text  android imeOptions  actionNext  android maxLines  1

[android] restrict edittext to single line

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