Single line EditText in Android

Question

I am trying to make the edittext single line. The edittext does comes up as single line but on pressing enter it the cursor comes to the second line and I need to stop this. The singleLine attribute is deprecated so I do not want to use that.

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/txtSearch"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
    android:drawablePadding="5dp"
    android:lines="1"
    android:maxLines="1"
    android:inputType="none"
    android:scrollHorizontally="true"
    android:paddingLeft="5dp"
    android:textSize="12sp" />

Can someone let me know what am I goind wrong over here ?

Answer 1

Set android:inputType to something different than "none", use "text", "number" or whatever should be entered in the EditText . This way you can make the EditText single-lined. (Of course you shouldn't use "textMultiLine" then ;))

Answer 2

Use this

android:singleLine="true"

instead of,

android:lines="1"
android:maxLines="1"

Answer 3

Change,

android:inputType="none"

to

android:inputType="text" or android:inputType="number"

according to your requirement.

Answer 4

use this code :

<EditText
  android:id="@+id/Et_loginEmail"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:background="@drawable/layout_bg"
  android:hint="Email Address"
  android:singleLine="true"
  android:ellipsize="end"
/>

Answer 5

This alone is enough to make single line in EditText.

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/fullname"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:hint="Full Name"
    android:inputType="text"/>

android:inputType="text" alone solves the single line in EditText .

You need to choose your desired inputType as per your requirement.

Answer 6

change the android:inputType="none"

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/txtSearch"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
    android:drawablePadding="5dp"
    android:maxLines="1"
    android:inputType="none"
    android:scrollHorizontally="true"
    android:paddingLeft="5dp"
    android:textSize="12sp" />

to

<EditText
        android:id="@+id/txtSearch"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
        android:drawablePadding="5dp"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:inputType="text"
        android:scrollHorizontally="true"
        android:paddingLeft="5dp"
        android:textSize="12sp" />