Scrollable Hint Text

[rmtmckenzie]

Use case

If the hint text of a textfield is larger than the space available, it cuts off the text with ellipses. In normal use-cases this is reasonable enough, but there are some where this isn't - particularly when dealing with accessibility & large text sizes.

If the hint text were to be scrollable in the same way that the non-hint-text is, that would eliminate this issue.

With accessibility features off:

With accessibility features on (large text + bold on iOS):

(Note that these are the exact same application, and that pretty much any flutter app using textfields w/ hintText would display the same issue).

Proposal

For multi-line text fields this isn't as much as an issue, but for single-line ones this user experience could be improved by making the hint text scrollable horizontally.

[justinmc]

Does anyone know if the Material guidelines say anything about ellipsis vs. scrollable hint text?

[rmtmckenzie]

This is all it says:

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[justinmc]

I'm not sure if this is feasible. If anyone has an example of a Material implementation or spec with a horizontally scrollable hint, please post it!