Flutter - Text inside an Expanded Widget within a Column overflowing

Question

What I want to achieve is to have a text widget inside a Column of fixed height. When the text is long I want the overflow property which is set to TextOv

Answer 1

Try wrapping your column with 'Flexible' instead of expandable.

I had the same issue with text overflowing in column and wrapping column itself with 'flexible' allowed to make text smaller.

         Flexible(
          child: Padding(
            padding: const EdgeInsets.only(left: 8.0),
            child: Column(
              crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
              children: <Widget>[
                Padding(
                  padding: const EdgeInsets.only(bottom: 8.0),
                  child: Text(
                    'Name',
                    style: CustomTextStyle.blueTitle14(context),
                  ),
                ),
                Padding(
                  padding: const EdgeInsets.only(bottom: 4.0),
                  child: Text('Long text'),
                ),
              ],
            ),
          ),
        ),

Answer 2

Based on my experiences, you should assign a fixed width to the Container containing the overflowing text, as per this post. Flutter- wrapping text .