TextView multiline

Question

I have a TextView that is populated with a text that is taken from a database, so its lenth is undefined.

I have configured the TextView using the maxline attribute, and I have set its value to 3, because I don't want more than 3 lines of text, and also I use the ellipsize attribute.

But It doesn't work properly. Although the text is larger than 3 lines, it only prints two lines.

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/etLugar"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/tvLugar"        
    android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/tvLugar"
    android:text="A very large text than must be shown in the textview, but no more of three lines are going to be shown"
    android:textColor="@color/foreground1"        
    android:maxLines="3"
    android:ellipsize="end"        
    android:textSize="12dp" 
    />

I don't understand why maxlines attribute is is not working properly. What I'm doing wrong?

Thanks

Are there `\n` in the `android:text` property? Only then it's a new line it think. — RTB, Jul 20 '12 at 11:26

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 01 '13 at 18:02

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i guess it is due to android:singleLine="false" which is default value try and change it to TRUE tell if it works.

answered Jun 01 '13 at 18:02

karan

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singleLine is deprecated – JPM Oct 17 '16 at 21:25

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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There is same question Android ellipsize multiline textview. This is known bug, quite old and not fixed yet.

Someone posted workaround Android Textview Multiline Ellipse/ maybe it will help you (or someone else).

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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answered Jul 20 '12 at 11:30

Ionică Bizău

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Hello, I've tried the solution I've read in the question you told me, but it doesn't work. Again, two lines but now it is not ellipsed... – Eduardo Jul 20 '12 at 11:48

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 02 '13 at 06:10

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Because of you have less content that has two line only, it was work perfectly which you wrote code(xml) enter more content in string then try it.

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answered Oct 02 '13 at 06:10

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 24 '14 at 12:38

I'm having a similar issue with 2 TextView, one is supposed to have maxLines="2" and the other maxLines="4".

The first was always on a single line, regardless of the ellipsize setting I add. The second didn't matter and text was using as many lines it needed!

It seems to depends on 2 factors:

The other elements of your layout
The textAppearance if set may break/override this setting or a singleLine option

To solve this I added code to do that directly on the text views:

tv1.setMaxLines(2);
tv2.setMaxLines(4);

And that did the trick.

score -1 · Answer 5 · edited Nov 05 '12 at 03:23

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Don't use the ellipsize attribute, just android:maxlines="3" should work.

edited Nov 05 '12 at 03:23

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answered Jul 20 '12 at 11:30

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Ok, it works, three line are shown, but now the ellipse is not shown – Eduardo Jul 20 '12 at 12:13
Are you using default font or custom. I ran into this and the ellipse was not defined in the font so it ended up drawing a space. – JPM Aug 12 '14 at 20:50
For whatever I did, it was the default font. Never tried with other fonts, but that should not matter, if I'm not wrong. – SamSPICA Aug 15 '14 at 07:48

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