Android TextView Text not getting wrapped

Question

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:

Answer 1

Increase the height i.e.. android:height="Some size" , it is working fine for me.

Answer 2

you have to use android:singleLine="false" in ur TextView tags.

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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 & 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

<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"/>

Hope this would help someone.

Answer 5

It is enough to use in your xml file.

android:singleLine="false".

Hope it will work.

All the best!

Answer 6

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.