Android, How to limit width of TextView (and add three dots at the end of text)?

问题

I have a TextView that I want to limit characters of it. Actually, I can do this but the thing that I'm looking for is how to add three dots (...) at the end of string. This one shows the text has continue. This is my XML but there is no dots although it limit my text.

<TextView 
        android:id                      = "@+id/tvFixture"
        android:layout_width            = "wrap_content"
        android:layout_height           = "wrap_content"
        android:layout_toLeftOf         = "@id/ivFixture_Guest"
        android:text                    = "@string/test_06"
        android:lines                   = "1"
        android:ems                     = "3"
        android:gravity                 = "right"
        style                           = "@style/simpletopic.black" 
        android:ellipsize="end"/>

回答1:

Deprecated:

Add one more property android:singleLine="true" in your Textview

Updated:

android:ellipsize="end" 
android:maxLines="1"

回答2:

The following is what I learned by playing around with various options for forcing a TextView to a single line (with and without the three dots).

android:maxLines="1"

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:maxLines="1"
    android:text="one two three four five six seven eight nine ten" />

This just forces the text to one line. Any extra text is hidden.

Related:

• android:maxLines
• android:singleLine (Note this and this)
• android:lines

ellipsize="end"

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:maxLines="1"
    android:ellipsize="end"
    android:text="one two three four five six seven eight nine ten" />

This cuts off the text that doesn't fit but lets users know that the text has been truncated by adding an ellipsis (the three dots).

Related:

• ellipsize="start" (...aaabbbccc)
• ellipsize="middle" (aaa...ccc)
• android: Ellipsise , meaning of the options

ellipsize="marquee"

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/MarqueeText"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:maxLines="1"
    android:singleLine="true"
    android:ellipsize="marquee"
    android:focusable="true"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
    android:text="one two three four five six seven eight nine ten" />

This makes the text scroll automatically across the TextView. Note that sometimes it needs to be set in code:

textView.setSelected(true);

Supposedly android:maxLines="1" and android:singleLine="true" should do basically the same thing and since singleLine is apparently deprecated I would prefer not to use it, but when I take it out, the marquee doesn't scroll anymore. Taking maxLines out doesn't affect it, though.

Related:

• Marquee text in Android

HorizontalScrollView with scrollHorizontally

<HorizontalScrollView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/horizontalScrollView">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:scrollHorizontally="true"
        android:text="one two three four five six seven eight nine ten" />
</HorizontalScrollView>

This allows the user to manually scroll to see the whole line of text.

回答3:

Try this property of TextView in your layout file..

android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxLines="1"

回答4:

I take it you want to limit width to one line and not limit it by character? Since singleLine is deprecated, you could try using the following together:

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

回答5:

eg. you can use

android:maxLength="13"

this will restrict texview length to 13 but problem is if you try to add 3 dots(...), it wont display it, as it will be part of textview length.

     String userName;
     if (data.length() >= 13) {
            userName = data.substring(0, 13)+ "...";

     } else {

            userName = data;

    }
        textView.setText(userName);

apart from this you have to use

 android:maxLines="1"

回答6:

code:

TextView your_text_view = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.your_id_textview);
your_text_view.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);

xml:

android:maxLines = "5"

e.g.

In Matthew 13, the disciples asked Jesus why He spoke to the crowds in parables. He answered, "It has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

Output: In Matthew 13, the disciples asked Jesus why He spoke to the crowds in parables. He answered, "It has been given to you to know...

回答7:

I got the desired result by using

android:maxLines="2"
android:minLines="2"
android:ellipsize="end"

The trick is set maxLines and minLines to the same value... and Not just android:lines = "2", dosen't do the trick. Also you are avoiding any deprecated attributes.

回答8:

You can limit your textview's number of characters and add (...) after the text. Suppose You need to show 5 letters only and thereafter you need to show (...), Just do the following :

String YourString = "abcdefghijk";

if(YourString.length()>5){

YourString  =  YourString.substring(0,4)+"...";

your_text_view.setText(YourString);
}else{

 your_text_view.setText(YourString); //Dont do any change

}

a little hack ^_^. Though its not a good solution. But a work around which worked for me :D

EDIT: I have added check for less character as per your limited no. of characters.

回答9:

I am using Horizonal Recyclerview.
1) Here in CardView, TextView gets distorted vertically when using

android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxLines="1"

Check the bold TextViews Wyman Group, Jaskolski...

2) But when I used singleLine along with ellipsize -

android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"

Check the bold TextViews Wyman Group, Jaskolski...

2nd solution worked for me properly (using singleLine). Also I have tested in OS version: 4.1 and above (till 8.0), it's working fine without any crashes.

回答10:

You need to add following lines into your layout for the textview

android:maxLines="1"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"

Hope this works for you.

回答11:

In order to work with the android:ellipsize attribute, you have to limit the layout width of the TextView, such that the text is out of bounds from view of TextView.

So, android:layout_width attribute plays a key role here, set it accordingly.

One example can be:

<TextView        
    android:layout_width="120dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:ellipsize="end"
    android:text="This is a very long text to be displayed"
    android:textSize="12sp"
    android:maxLines="1"            
     />

Now, here if the text in android:text="This is a very long text to be displayed" goes out of view from TextView with a android:layout_width="120dp", android:ellipsize="end" will truncate the text and place ...(3 dots) after it. i.e. This is very long... will be displayed in the TextView.

回答12:

I think you give fix height and width of text view. Then your solution will work.

回答13:

you can write this line in xml where you take the textview :

android:singleLine="true"

回答14:

Add These two lines in your text

android:ellipsize="end"
android:singleLine="true"

回答15:

The approach of @AzharShaikh works fine.

android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxLines="1"

But I realize a trouble that TextView will be truncated by word (in default). Show if we have a text like:

test long_line_without_any_space_abcdefgh

the TextView will display:

test...

And I found solution to handle this trouble, replace spaces with the unicode no-break space character, it makes TextView wrap on characters instead of words:

yourString.replace(" ", "\u00A0");

The result:

test long_line_without_any_space_abc...

回答16:

Use

• android:singleLine="true"
• android:maxLines="1"
• app:layout_constrainedWidth="true"

It's how my full TextView looks:

    <TextView
    android:id="@+id/message_title"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginStart="5dp"
    android:maxLines="1"
    android:singleLine="true"
    android:text="NAME PLACEHOLDER MORE Text"
    android:textColor="@android:color/black"
    android:textSize="16sp"

    android:textStyle="bold"
    app:layout_constrainedWidth="true"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="@id/message_check_sign"
    app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@id/img_chat_contact"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@id/img_chat_contact" />

回答17:

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/product_description"
            android:layout_width="165dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="2dp"
            android:paddingLeft="12dp"
            android:paddingRight="12dp"
            android:text="Pack of 4 summer printed pajama"
            android:textColor="#d2131c"
            android:textSize="12sp"
            android:maxLines="2"
            android:ellipsize="end"/>

回答18:

you can do that by xml:

<TextView 
    android:id="@+id/textview"
    android:maxLines="1" // or any number of lines you want
    android:ellipsize="end"
    />

回答19:

You just change ...

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

Use this below line

android:layout_width="match_parent"

.......

   <LinearLayout
       android:layout_width="wrap_content"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:layout_centerVertical="true"
       android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
       android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
       android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/visitBox"
       android:orientation="vertical" >

             <TextView
                  android:id="@+id/txvrequestTitle"
                  android:layout_width="match_parent"
                  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                  android:singleLine="true"
                  android:text="Abcdefghighiklmnon"
                  android:textAppearance="? 
                  android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
                  android:textColor="@color/orange_color" />

   </LinearLayout>

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10748796/android-how-to-limit-width-of-textview-and-add-three-dots-at-the-end-of-text