How to create a TextArea in Android

Question

How do I display a TextArea for my android project  From xml  the only choice is TextField  multi lined  But thats editable  I need a TextArea which is only for displaying messages text can t be edit input by the user

User · Answer

If you do not want to allow user to enter text TextView is the best option here. Any how you can also add EditText for this purpose. here is a sample code for that.

This would automatically show scrollbar if there is more text than the specified lines.

<EditText
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:inputType="textMultiLine"
    android:lines="8"
    android:maxLines="10"
    android:minLines="6"
    android:scrollbars="vertical" />

Edit: Adding attributes below to textView would make it a textArea that would not be editable.

android:lines="8"
android:maxLines="10"
android:minLines="6" // optional

User · Answer

Its really simple  write this code in XML    lt EditText     android id    id fname      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android hint  First Name    gt

User · Answer

Use TextView inside a ScrollView to display messages with any no of lines  User can t edit the text in this view as in EditText   I think this is good for your requirement  Try it once   You can change the default color and text size in XML file only if you want to fix them as below    lt TextView      android id    id tv      android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  100px      android textColor   f00      android textSize  25px      android typeface  serif      android textStyle  italic   gt    or if you want to change dynamically whenever you want use as below   TextView textarea    TextView findViewById R id tv       tv is id in XML file for TextView textarea setTextSize 20   textarea setTextColor Color rgb 0xff  0  0    textarea setTypeface Typeface SERIF  Typeface ITALIC

User · Answer

All of the answers are good but not complete  Use this     lt EditText       android layout width  match parent        android layout height  0dp        android layout marginTop  12dp        android layout marginBottom  12dp        android background   drawable text area background        android gravity  start top        android hint   string write your comments        android imeOptions  actionDone        android importantForAutofill  no        android inputType  textMultiLine        android padding  12dp    gt

User · Answer

Try this    lt EditText         android id    id edit text          android layout width  match parent          android layout height  150dp          android inputType  text textMultiLine          android gravity  top   gt

User · Answer

lt EditText     android id    id comments textbox      android layout width  match parent      android layout height  wrap content      android hint  comments      android inputType  textMultiLine      android longClickable  false    gt    use it to create multi line text box like textArea in Html

User · Answer

Use TextView inside a ScrollView   lt ScrollView     android id    id ScrollView01      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  150dip  gt        lt TextView         android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content   gt    lt  ScrollView gt

User · Answer

lt android support v4 widget NestedScrollView     android layout width  match parent      android layout height  100dp  gt   lt EditText     android id    id question input      android layout width  match parent      android layout height  match parent      android ems  10      android inputType  text textMultiLine      android lineSpacingExtra  5sp      android padding  5dp      android textAlignment  textEnd      android typeface  normal    gt    lt  android support v4 widget NestedScrollView gt

User · Answer

this short answer might help someone who is looking to do  add this simple code in your code    lt EditText     android layout width  match parent      android layout height  wrap content      android editable  false      android focusable  false      android singleLine  true    gt

User · Answer

Defining an Android Mulitline EditText Field is done via the inputType    textMultiline     Unfortunately the text looks strangely aligned  To solve that also use the gravity    left top    attribute    lt EditText    android id    id editText1     android layout width  match parent     android layout height  match parent     android ems  10     android gravity  left top     android inputType  textMultiLine   gt       lt requestFocus   gt      check this vogella blog

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lt EditText             android layout width  match parent              android layout height  160dp              android ems  10              android gravity  left top              android hint  Write your comment                android inputType  textMultiLine              android textSize  15sp  gt               lt requestFocus   gt          lt  EditText gt

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