Difficulty with maxlines in edittext

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For Android EditText maxlines=true does not work if digits are applied and single line true is deprecated so anyone has any suggestions?

you have to give the numbers to set the max lines for your editext. Like set maxLines = "2" . It will work then — Umair, Sep 07 '17 at 07:38
maxLines take integer not a boolean varibale so you should use maxLines = "1" — Navin Gupta, Sep 07 '17 at 07:41
So... you are telling it `Set the maximum number of lines to... YES`. Does it make sense to you? — Phantômaxx, Sep 07 '17 at 07:42
watch this link https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7092961/edittext-maxlines-not-working-user-can-still-input-more-lines-than-set — Navin Gupta, Sep 07 '17 at 07:54

Akshay Katariya · Answer 1 · 2017-09-07T08:06:38.687

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see this example

<EditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_margin="4dp"
        android:digits="1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
        android:maxLength="15"//used to set max character
        android:maxLines="1"/>//used to set max number of lines

edited Sep 07 '17 at 08:06

answered Sep 07 '17 at 07:47

Akshay Katariya

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It does'nt work if u put android:digits="abcd". Check yourself. – Rudee Sep 07 '17 at 07:54
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@Rudee why would you put `android:digits="abcd"`? I mean, what for? – Julfikar Sep 07 '17 at 08:03
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@Rudee I have checked and its working for me, so before commenting please do some research and try something, check my revised abswer – Akshay Katariya Sep 07 '17 at 08:07

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 07 '17 at 09:54

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Put this code in your activity

editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText);
editText.setSingleLine(true);

This is how your xml will look

<EditText
android:id="@+id/editText"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:digits="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
android:maxLines="1"
android:textColor="@android:color/black"/>

edited Sep 07 '17 at 09:54

Akshay Katariya

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answered Sep 07 '17 at 08:14

Arjun Solanki

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put android:digits="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" and then check maxlines will not work. – Rudee Sep 07 '17 at 08:21

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 07 '17 at 08:46

I think you didnt specify this parameter:

android:inputType="text"

Without it you can even put new line in edit text. You could add also these attributes:

 android:maxLines="1"
 android:lines="1"

Though when I checked it without inputType attribute, it still didn't work. Hope I helped

Difficulty with maxlines in edittext

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