Android TextView Text not getting wrapped

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Can anyone tell me what s going wrong with the text  Text longer than one line doesn t wrap to the next line but goes beyond the screen   Following is the code    lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      android layout width  fill parent       android layout height  wrap content      android orientation  horizontal       android padding  4dip  gt        lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android          android layout width  fill parent           android layout height  wrap content          android orientation  vertical           android padding  4dip  gt            lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android              android layout width  fill parent               android layout height  wrap content              android orientation  horizontal               android padding  4dip  gt               lt TextView                  android id    id reviewItemEntityName                  android layout width  wrap content                   android layout height  wrap content                  android text  event venue                   android textColor   color maroon                  android singleLine  true                   android ellipsize  end                   android textSize  14sp                  android textStyle  bold                   android layout weight  1    gt                lt ImageView                  android id    id reviewItemStarRating                  android layout width  wrap content                   android layout height  wrap content                  android layout alignParentTop  true                  android layout alignParentBottom  true                  android src   drawable title 1 star    gt           lt  LinearLayout gt            lt TextView              android id    id reviewItemDescription              android layout width  fill parent               android layout height  wrap content              android text  Description comes here               android textSize  12sp               android layout weight  1   gt       lt  LinearLayout gt   lt  LinearLayout gt

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You must use 2 parameters     android ellipsize  none    the text is not cut on textview width android scrollHorizontally  false  the text wraps on as many lines as necessary

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I fixed it myself  the key is android width  0dip      lt LinearLayout      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android orientation  vertical      android padding  4dip      android layout weight  1  gt        lt LinearLayout          android layout width  fill parent          android layout height  wrap content          android orientation  horizontal          android padding  4dip  gt            lt TextView             android id    id reviewItemEntityName              android layout width  wrap content              android layout height  wrap content              android textColor   color maroon              android singleLine  true              android ellipsize  end              android textSize  14sp              android textStyle  bold              android layout weight  1    gt            lt ImageView             android id    id reviewItemStarRating              android layout width  wrap content              android layout height  wrap content              android layout alignParentTop  true              android layout alignParentBottom  true    gt           lt  LinearLayout gt            lt TextView             android id    id reviewItemDescription              android layout width  fill parent              android layout height  wrap content              android textSize  12sp              android width  0dip    gt        lt  LinearLayout gt        lt ImageView         android id    id widget01          android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content          android src   drawable arrow nxt          android layout gravity  center vertical          android paddingRight  5dip    gt    lt  LinearLayout gt

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I m using constraint layout mostly   1  android layout width  match parent    tries to stretch to meet edges  2  android layout width  wrap content    based solely on the input text without regard for other views nearby  for example adding android textAlignment  center  will change the shape of the text  3  android padding  12dp          android layout width  0dp          android layout weight  1          android singleLine  false      The text will fold to accommodate nearby layouts without regard to the text itself

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you have to use android singleLine  false  in ur TextView tags

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I could not get any of these solutions working when using a TableLayout gt TableRow gt TextView  I then found TableLayout shrinkColumns      The only other solution that worked was forcing the TextView to layout width 250px etc but i don t like forcing widths like that   Try something like this if working with tables                lt TableLayout                  android layout width  fill parent                  android layout height  wrap content                  android shrinkColumns     gt    Note you need shrinkColumns      This is obviously within a  lt LinearLayout gt   So something like  lt LinearLayout gt   lt TableLayout gt   lt TableRow gt   lt TextView gt   references   TableLayout  http   code google com p android issues detail id 4000  Hope that helps someone

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Set the height of the text view android minHeight  some pixes  or android width  some pixels   It will solve the problem

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For my case removing input type did the trick  i was using android inputType  textPostalAddress  due to that my textview was sticked to one line and was not wrapping  removing this fixed the issue

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I had a similar problem where were my two horizontally weighted TextViews didn t wrap the text  I later found out that the issue was because my viewparents parent had wrap content instead of match parent

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I used android ems  23  to solve my problem  Just replace 23 with the best value in your case    lt TextView         android id    id msg          android ems  23          android text  ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab ab           android textColor   color white          android textStyle  bold          android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content   gt

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I just removed android lines  1  and added android maxLines  2   this got the text to wrap automatically  The problem was the android lines attribute  That causes the text wrapping to not happen   I didnt have to use maxEms or singleLine  false   deprecated API  to fix this

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I m an Android  and GUI  beginner  but have lots of experience with software   I ve gone through a few of the tutorials  and this is my understanding   layout width and layout height are attributes of the TextView   They are instructions for how the TextView should shape itself  they aren t referring to how to handle the content within the TextView   If you use  fill parent   you are saying that the TextView should shape itself relative to it s parent view  it should fill it   If you use  wrap content   you are saying that you should ignore the parent view  and let the contents of the TextView define it s shape   I think this is the confusing point    wrap content  isn t telling the TextView how to manage it s contents  to wrap the lines   it s telling it that it should shape itself relative to it s contents   In this case  with no new line characters  it shapes itself so that all the text is on a single line  which unfortunately is overflowing the parent    I think you want it to fill the parent horizontally  and to wrap it s contents vertically

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I finally managed to add some pixels to the height of the TextView to solve this issue   First you need to actually get the height of the TextView  It s not straightforward because it s 0 before it s already painted   Add this code to onCreate   mReceiveInfoTextView    TextView  findViewById R id receive info txt   if  mReceiveInfoTextView    null         final ViewTreeObserver observer   mReceiveInfoTextView getViewTreeObserver        observer addOnGlobalLayoutListener new ViewTreeObserver OnGlobalLayoutListener              Override         public void onGlobalLayout                 int height   mReceiveInfoTextView getHeight                int addHeight   getResources   getDimensionPixelSize R dimen view add height               mReceiveInfoTextView setHeight height   addHeight                   Remove the listener if possible             ViewTreeObserver viewTreeObserver   mReceiveInfoTextView getViewTreeObserver                if  viewTreeObserver isAlive                      viewTreeObserver removeOnGlobalLayoutListener this                                       You need to add this line to dimens xml   lt dimen name  view add height  gt 10dp lt  dimen gt    Hope it helps

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To wrap the text and to put the text in next line we sholud use the   n  i e new line character in the layout xml file and check tht change on the emulator not on the layout screen

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The only correct answer to this question is that you need to set the parents to a proper width  in this case FILL PARENT  WRAP CONTENT  and use android layout weight 1 for the textview that needs to be wrapped    SingleLine is on by default so that won t make any changes    A width set to 0px will work but is not a good solution   Some example  in a tableview this time   using xml    lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      android layout width  fill parent  android layout height  fill parent      android orientation  vertical  gt       lt TableLayout android layout width  fill parent          android layout height  wrap content  android stretchColumns             android id    id tableLayout1  gt           lt TableRow android id    id tableRow1  android layout width  fill parent              android layout height  wrap content  gt               lt TextView android text  test1  android layout width  fill parent                  android layout height  wrap content  android layout weight  0    gt               lt TextView android layout weight  1                  android text  test2 very long text that needs to be wrapped properly using layout weight property and ignoring singleline since that is set by default                     android layout width  fill parent  android layout height  wrap content    gt           lt  TableRow gt            lt  TableLayout gt   lt  LinearLayout gt    If you want to set this in code you re looking for the layout weight as a third parameter as in this example where it is set to 1   row setLayoutParams new LayoutParams LayoutParams FILL PARENT                  LayoutParams WRAP CONTENT    TextView label   new TextView getApplicationContext     label setLayoutParams new LayoutParams LayoutParams FILL PARENT                  LayoutParams WRAP CONTENT  1f

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Even-though this is an old thread  i d like to share my experience as it helped me  My application was working fine for OS 2 0  amp  4 0  but for a HTC phone running OS 3 x the text was not wrapping  What worked for me was to include both of these tags    android maxLines  100  android scrollHorizontally  false    If you eliminate either it was not working for only the os 3 0 device   ellipsize  parameter had neutral effect  Here is the full textview tag below    lt TextView                 android id    id cell description                  android layout width  fill parent                  android layout height  wrap content                  android paddingTop  5dp                  android maxLines  100                  android scrollHorizontally  false                  android textStyle  normal                  android textSize  11sp                  android textColor   color listcell detail   gt    Hope this would help someone

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I put this attribute   android inputType  textMultiLine    into my TextView and it has wrapping line and user can  Enter  for a new line                                                                  When you come to this post  you may want to create a Big TextView which can display multiple lines so these attributes may also needed  android layout height  Xdp    where X is a number depends on how big Textview you want android gravity  top    in order to make your text start from the top of your TextView

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One of your layout parameters is wrong in your code  In the first TextView   android layout width  wrap content    change to  android layout width  fill parent     The text that out of screen width size will wrap to next line and set android singleline  false

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I ve spent hours to figure out that in the text I was trying to display contained a single quote  in string xml  so I just escaped it with a backslash and it worked nicely    the height of the TextView was correctly wrapping text     lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      xmlns tools  http   schemas android com tools      android layout width  match parent      android layout height  wrap content      android orientation  vertical      android paddingLeft  16dp      android paddingRight  16dp      android paddingTop  16dp      tools context   MainActivity  gt        lt TextView         android layout width  match parent          android layout height  wrap content          android fontFamily  sans-serif-smallcaps          android text   string instructions          android textAlignment  center          android textSize  18sp          android textStyle  bold    gt        lt EditText         android id    id keyword          android layout width  match parent          android layout height  wrap content          android text   string defaultKeyword          android textSize  22sp            gt

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I know  that in question it is correct  but in my case  the problem was in setting textSize property in  dp  - I ve changed it to  sp  and it works fine

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It is enough to use in your xml file   android singleLine  false     Hope it will work   All the best

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I added a  n in the middle of my string and it looked okay

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I think it depends on the particular combination of layouts in your display  Some flags may get overridden or ignored  I have a TabHost with tabs  each tab is a list of tables  So it is a tab of ListView  each row being a TableLayout of TextView  I tried the fixes listed above and none of them worked

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Increase the height i e   android height  Some size    it is working fine for me

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In my case  with a TableRow  gt  ScrollView  gt  TextView nesting  I solved the problem by setting android layout width to fill parent on TableRow  and to wrap content on ScrollView and TextView

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