Font and font size causing ellipses to appear instead.

[daronoh]

While playing around with JavaFX, I wanted to change the font and font size of my label in my DialogBox.

<Label fx:id="dialog" text="Label" wrapText="true" minHeight="-Infinity">
            <padding>
                <Insets top="0" right="10" bottom="0" left="10"/>
            </padding>
            <style>
                -fx-font-family: Arial;
                -fx-font-size: 10pt;
            </style>
</Label>

however, when I did this, I noticed that now, whenever I have a label that ends with a new line ("\n"), it turns the last line into an ellipses.

for example, given a response of:

"1.[T][X] read book\n" +
"2.[D][ ] return book (by: June 6th)\n" +
"3.[E][ ] project meeting (from: Aug 6th 2pm to: 4pm)\n" +
"4.[T][X] join sports club\n" +
"5.[T][ ] borrow book\n"

it would show: 1.[T][X] read book 2.[D][ ] return book (by: June 6th) 3.[E][ ] project meeting (from: Aug 6th 2pm to: 4pm) 4.[T][X] join sports club ...

I thought that by having wrapText="true" and minHeight="-Infinity", it would prevent ellipses from happening. Does anyone know why this is happening?

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[Domokunx]

Maybe the Height of the HBox which contains your Label is preventing the overflow from occurring and results in the ellipsis.

Try messing around with the HBox attributes? I'm new to JavaFx too so it's just a guess.

[starchypotatocode]

I pasted your code inside my .fxml and didn't have the problem you posted, so it's probably not that. Did you copy the code from the tutorial correctly? (Can you show us the full .fxml file?)

[harithh07]

I played around with SceneBuilder and managed to fix the same problem with my GUI, changing the preferred height of the HBox and Label to use computed size and the HGrow of the Label to "ALWAYS" seemed to fix it for me. I think the max height for both the HBox and Label need to be max value as well.

[winstonlimjy]

Im not sure whats the reason behind it too, in the tutorial, we used the default font and font size i believe. When u play around with different font, it seems to overrun the text into ellipsis.

--> With default font

--> same with Arial font, size 13.

[woke02]

Hi, try setting HGrow of the Label to "ALWAYS", it worked for me

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