TextView cuts off text when it is long enough

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I have strange problem with TextView, it cuts off part of the text at the end. My layout looks like

<LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="top|center_horizontal"
        android:gravity="top|center_horizontal"
        android:orientation="vertical" >
        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            android:layout_gravity="top|center_horizontal"
            android:gravity="top|center_horizontal"
            android:orientation="horizontal"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:layout_marginBottom="5dp">
            <Button
                android:id="@+id/btnPreviousQuestion"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:background="@drawable/selector_arrow_left"
                android:clickable="true"
                android:visibility="gone" >
            </Button>
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/txtQuestion"
                style="@style/question_text"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="fill_parent"
                android:gravity="top|center_horizontal"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                 />
            <Button
                android:id="@+id/btnNextQuestion"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
                android:background="@drawable/selector_arrow_right"
                android:clickable="true" >
            </Button>
        </LinearLayout>
        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:orientation="horizontal" >
            <WebView
                android:id="@+id/wvMultimediaQuestion"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="bottom|center_horizontal"
                android:layout_marginLeft="50dp"
                android:layout_marginRight="55dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:visibility="gone" />
        </LinearLayout>
    </LinearLayout>

and txtQuestion cuts off text when it is long enough. What is wrong, does anybody know ?

cuts off - when you display the text or when you parse it from the TextView? — hovanessyan, Dec 23 '11 at 13:31
@Damir can you post screenshot of text cut off. small confusion in question. I tested your layout, its displaying entire text given. — Yugandhar Babu, Dec 23 '11 at 13:47

MGK · Answer 1 · 2011-12-23T14:08:23.510

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Make use of these attributes

    android:lines="1"
    android:scrollHorizontally="true"
    android:ellipsize="end"

will append "..." at the end. But this will not solve problem in honeycomb tab

So for honeycomb tablet add the following atttibute also

android:singleLine="true"

On the other hand if you require marquee effect

android:singleLine="true"
android:ellipsize="marquee" 
android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever"
android:scrollHorizontally="true" 
android:focusable="true" 
android:focusableInTouchMode="true

edited Dec 23 '11 at 14:08

answered Dec 23 '11 at 13:50

MGK

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Your code on the marquee effect only works for a single TextView in the layout. If you try to have multiple items scrolling then it doesn't work. How do you go about multiple TextView to have this effect? – Brandon Feb 19 '15 at 16:55

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 23 '11 at 13:31

Yes there are some attributes you need to set, but first let us know what type of textview do you want exactly, single line or multi line?

There are some attributes you can take care of:

android:singleLine="true"  // or false
android:ellipsize="marquee"   // must check
android:lines="1"

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 06 '19 at 07:56

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Set below properties in layout file. It works fine for me

android:singleLine="true"
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

answered Mar 06 '19 at 07:56

Namita S

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score 1 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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If you expect differing lengths of text for your view or you're going to change the textSize of different instances of your TextView then you should use View.addOnLayoutChangeListener().

See an example here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44069734/1402087

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

Community

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answered May 19 '17 at 12:14

mp501

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I can't see any reference to changes at runtime. If the layout doesn't change after creating the listener doesn't do much. In fact, nothing at all. – The incredible Jan Feb 20 '23 at 10:10

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 10 '22 at 20:02

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Set the layout_gravity on the TextView to fill

answered Aug 10 '22 at 20:02

Pannekoek Man

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please be more descriptive? – DevAcc Aug 10 '22 at 20:03

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 30 '13 at 23:00

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You need to set android:minLines="2"

answered Apr 30 '13 at 23:00

Aliya

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Why? What should that do? – The incredible Jan Feb 20 '23 at 10:10

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 25 '21 at 23:16

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For me it I realised I was using the layout view of a different device to the one I was testing with. When I corrected this, I could see the textlayout was way too wide so I used this setting to reign it in:

android:layout_width="330dp"

answered Jan 25 '21 at 23:16

KERR

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Not a good example for wrapping up the text in small space. best practice must use wrap_content or match_parent. – Jack Aug 05 '21 at 03:51

Partha Panja · Answer 8 · 2023-01-17T11:31:09.503

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Tried all the solutions provided here but none of these helps, finally got the solution using android:layout_width="0dp" instead of android:layout_width="fill_parent" in textview.

edited Jan 17 '23 at 11:31

answered Jan 17 '23 at 11:25

Partha Panja

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