✍️ Flutter TextField widget that automatically resizes text field to fit perfectly within its bounds.
v2.0.0
and above is for Flutter v3. For Flutter v2 and below, please continue to use v1.0.1
v2.2.0
Flutter v3.3 support: deprecated ToolbarOptions toolbarOptions
and added support of its replacement ContextMenuBuilder.
Use 2.1.1
instead if your AutoSizeTextField
is still dependent on toolbarOptions
.Note: Kudos to @leisim! This work is inspired by his awesome lib Auto Size Text. Please check it out if you want to auto size the Flutter Text
widget content.
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AutoSizeTextField
behaves exactly like a TextField
. The only difference is that it resizes text to fit within its bounds.
AutoSizeTextField(
controller: _textEditingController,
style: TextStyle(fontSize: 20),
maxLines: 2,
)
Note: AutoSizeTextField
needs bounded constraints to resize the text. More info here.
true
)The fullwidth
parameter extends the width of TextField
to its parent's BoxContraints
to occupy full width.
Set to false
to let the width TextField
determined by the width of the text.
The maxLines
parameter works like you are used to with the Text
widget. If there is no maxLines
parameter specified, the AutoSizeTextField
only fits the text according to the available width and height.
AutoSizeTextField(
controller: _textEditingController,
style: TextStyle(fontSize: 30),
maxLines: null,
decoration: InputDecoration(
border: InputBorder.none,
isDense: true,
contentPadding: const EdgeInsets.all(20)
),
)
The AutoSizeTextField
starts with TextStyle.fontSize
. It measures the resulting text and rescales it to fit within its bonds. You can however set the allowed range of the resulting font size.
With minFontSize
you can specify the smallest possible font size. If the text still doesn't fit, it will be handled according to overflow
. The default minFontSize
is 12
.
maxFontSize
sets the largest possible font size. This is useful if the TextStyle
inherits the font size and you want to constrain it.
AutoSizeTextField(
controller: _textEditingController,
style: TextStyle(fontSize: 30),
minFontSize: 18,
maxLines: 4,
overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
)
The AutoSizeTextField
will try each font size, starting with TextStyle.fontSize
until the text fits within its bounds.
stepGranularity
specifies how much the font size is decreased each step. Usually, this value should not be below 1
for best performance.
AutoSizeTextField(
controller: _textEditingController,
style: TextStyle(fontSize: 40),
minFontSize: 10,
stepGranularity: 10,
maxLines: 4,
overflow: TextOverflow.ellipsis,
)
If you want to allow only specific font sizes, you can set them with presetFontSizes
.
If presetFontSizes
is set, minFontSize
, maxFontSize
and stepGranularity
will be ignored.
AutoSizeTextField(
controller: _textEditingController,
presetFontSizes: [40, 20, 14],
maxLines: 4,
)
If the text is overflowing and does not fit its bounds, this widget is displayed instead. This can be useful to prevent text being too small to read.
AutoSizeTextField(
maxLines: 1,
controller: _textEditingController
)
Parameter | Description |
---|---|
key * |
Controls how one widget replaces another widget in the tree. |
textKey |
Sets the key for the resulting Text widget |
style * |
If non-null, the style to use for this text |
fullwidth |
Default: true , It extends the width of TextField to its parent's BoxContraints to occupy full width. Set to false to let the width TextField determined by the width of the text. |
minFontSize |
The minimum text size constraint to be used when auto-sizing text. Is being ignored if presetFontSizes is set. |
maxFontSize |
The maximum text size constraint to be used when auto-sizing text. Is being ignored if presetFontSizes is set. |
stepGranularity |
The step size in which the font size is being adapted to constraints. |
presetFontSizes |
Predefines all the possible font sizes. Important: presetFontSizes have to be in descending order. |
locale * |
Used to select a font when the same Unicode character can be rendered differently, depending on the locale. |
wrapWords |
Whether words which don't fit in one line should be wrapped. Defaults to true to behave like Text . |
overflowReplacement |
If the text is overflowing and does not fit its bounds, this widget is displayed instead. |
maxLines |
An optional maximum number of lines for the text to span. |
minWidth |
An optional min width for input field. Only set it when fullwidth = false |
TextField
. TextField
. AutoSizeTextField
is really fast. In fact, you can replace all your TextField
widgets with AutoSizeTextField
.
Nevertheless you should not use an unreasonable high fontSize
in your TextStyle
. E.g. don't set the fontSize
to 1000
if you know, that the text will never be larger than 30
.
If your font size has a very large range, consider increasing stepGranularity
.
If AutoSizeTextField
overflows or does not resize the text, you should check if it has constrained width and height.
Wrong code:
Row(
children: <Widget>[
AutoSizeTextField(
controller: _textEditingController,
maxLines: 1,
),
],
)
Because Row
and other widgets like Container
, Column
or ListView
do not constrain their children, the text will overflow.
You can fix this by constraining the AutoSizeTextField
. Wrap it with Expanded
in case of Row
and Column
or use a SizedBox
or another widget with fixed width (and height).
Correct code:
Row(
children: <Widget>[
Expanded( // Constrains AutoSizeTextField to the width of the Row
child: AutoSizeTextField(
controller: _textEditingController,
maxLines: 1,
)
),
],
)
}
AutoSizeTextField
does not resize text below the minFontSize
which defaults to 12.:
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