Wrapping long text into a container, causes overflow Flutter

Question

I'm creating a notification center for my application, and it contains a bit of long strings for the title and the body, and it always causes overflow, I've tried using Expanded widgets, and these following stack over flow questions: Question 1, Question 2 But I cannot apply it to my code, here is what it looks like right now:

I get the text from my firebase cloud firestore, and I'm outputting the texts using a listview.

The title text is this: "Allen Indefenzo has rescinded consent for you to access his/her data"
The body text is this : "He/she has removed all your access and you will no longer be able to view / change his data, to have access again ask for the user to give you his/her special code again."

Here is my code:

Container(
        color: Colors.white,
        child: StreamBuilder(
          stream: db
              .collection('users')
              .document(userData.userID)
              .collection('notifications')
              .snapshots(),
          builder: (BuildContext context, AsyncSnapshot snapshot) {
            if (!snapshot.hasData) {
              return Center(
                child: CircularProgressIndicator(),
              );
            }
            if (snapshot.data.documents.length != 0) {
              return ListView.builder(
                itemCount: snapshot.data.documents.length,
                itemBuilder: (BuildContext context, int index) {
                  return Container(
                    child: Row(
                      children: <Widget>[
                        Container(
                          height: 150,
                          width: 100,
                          child: Image(
                            image: NetworkImage(
                                snapshot.data.documents[index]['dpURL']), fit: BoxFit.contain,
                          ),
                        ),
                        Column(
                          children: <Widget>[
                            Container(
                              height: 50,
                              width: MediaQuery.of(context).size.width * 0.8,
                              child:
                                  Text(snapshot.data.documents[index]['title']),
                            ),
                            Container(
                              height: 50,
                              width: MediaQuery.of(context).size.width * 0.8,
                              child:
                                  Text(snapshot.data.documents[index]['body']),
                            ),
                          ],
                        ),
                      ],
                    ),
                  );
                },
              );
            }
          },
        ),
      ),

Any help is appreciated and if you can explain it would be amazing! Thank you so much!

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 06 '19 at 06:47

try to wrap your Column inside Expanded,

 Container(
              child: Row(
                children: <Widget>[
                  Container(
                    height: 150,
                    width: 100,
                    child: Image(
                      image: NetworkImage(
                          'https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQLBtBU3nUOK7osT41ZsQhP4VBV7fd9euqXvXVKQH0Q7bl4txeD'),
                      fit: BoxFit.contain,
                    ),
                  ),
                  Expanded(
                    child: Column(
                      children: <Widget>[
                        Text(
                            'Reallly looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong textttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt'),
                        Text(
                            'Reallly looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong textttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt'),
                      ],
                    ),
                  ),
                ],
              ),
            );

output:

Additionally if you want to limit lines of Text use,

  Text(
'Reallly looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooongtextttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt',
    maxLines: 2,
    overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
                        ),

Output:

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 06 '19 at 07:27

Just wrap your column inside expanded widget

Expanded(child: 
               Column(
                          children: <Widget>[
                            Container(
                              height: 50,
                              width: MediaQuery.of(context).size.width * 0.8,
                              child:
                                  Text(snapshot.data.documents[index]['title']),
                            ),
                            Container(
                              height: 50,
                              width: MediaQuery.of(context).size.width * 0.8,
                              child:
                                  Text(snapshot.data.documents[index]['body']),
                            ),
                          ],
      ),
),

Expanded widget is useful when you want to fill all the remaining space when a column or row widget have 2 or more child widgets. so wrapping a child inside an expanded widget will fill up the remaining space accordingly.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 06 '19 at 07:01

return Container(child: Row(
                            children: <Widget>[
                              Container(
                                height: 150,
                                width: 100,
                                child: Image(
                                  image: NetworkImage(snapshot.data.documents[index]['dpURL']), fit: BoxFit.contain,
                                ),
                              ),
                             new Expanded(
                                child: Column(
                                  children: <Widget>[
                                    Padding(
                                      padding: const EdgeInsets.all(8.0),
                                      child: TitleText(
                                        text:snapshot.data.documents[index]['title'] ,
                                        maxLine: 5,
                                      ),
                                    ),
                                    Container(
                                      height: 50,
                                      width: MediaQuery.of(context).size.width * 0.8,
                                      child: TitleText(
                                          text:snapshot.data.documents[index]['body']),
                                    ),
                                  ],
                                ),
                              ),
                            ],
                          ),
                        );

Wrapping long text into a container, causes overflow Flutter

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