Android Development EditText Properties

EditText Inheritance Relationship: View-->textview-->edittext
EditText has a lot of properties, here are a few:
Android:hint= "Please enter a number! "//Set the information displayed on the space
android:numeric= "integer"//settings can only enter integers, if it is decimal: decimal
Android:singleline= "true"//sets single-line input, and once set to true, the text does not wrap automatically.
Android:password= "true"//settings can only enter the password
Android:textcolor = "#ff8c00"//Font Color
Android:textstyle= "bold"//font, bold, italic, Bolditalic
Android:textsize= "20dip"//Size
Android:capitalize = "Characters"//write in uppercase letters
android:textalign= "center"//edittext does not have this attribute, but TextView has, centered
android:textcolorhighlight= "#cccccc"//Background of selected text, blue by default
Android:textcolorhint= "#ffff00"//Set the color of the message text, default is gray android:textscalex= "1.5"//control the spacing between word and word
Android:typeface= "monospace"//font, normal, sans, serif, monospace
Android:background= "@null"//background, not here, refers to transparent
android:layout_weight= "1"//weight controls the position between controls, which is useful when controlling the size of the control display.
Android:textappearance= "? Android:attr/textappearancelargeinverse"//Text appearance
android:layout_gravity= "center_vertical"//settings control display location: Default top, centered here, and bottom

android:gray= "Top"//multi-line pointer on first row first position

Et.setselection (Et.length ());//Adjust the cursor to the last line

Android:autotext//automatic spelling Help

Android:capitalize//First Letter Capital

Android:digits//settings accept only certain numbers

android:singleline//whether a single line or multiple rows, enter is to leave the text box or text box to add new lines

Android:numeric//Accept numbers only

Android:phonenumber//Enter phone number

Android:editable//Is editable

android:autolink= "All"//Set text hyperlink style when you click the URL, skip to the URL

Android:textappearance= "? Android:attr/textappearancelargeinverse"//text appearance, here refers to the system comes with a look,? Indicates whether the system has this appearance, otherwise the default appearance is used. I don't know if I understand that, right?


Property name Description

Android:autolink sets whether text is displayed as a clickable link when the text is a URL link/email/phone number/map. Selectable VALUES (None/web/email/phone/map/all)

Android:autotext if set, the spelling correction of the input values will be performed automatically. There is no effect here, it works when the input method is displayed and entered.

ANDROID:BUFFERTYPE Specifies the text category that is obtained by the GetText () method. The option editable is similar to the StringBuilder append character,

That is, you can call the Append method to set the text content after gettext. Spannable can use the style in a given character area, see here 1, here 2.

Android:capitalize set the English letter capitalization type. There is no effect here, you need to pop up the input method to see, see EditView this property description.

Android:cursorvisible set cursor to show/hide, default display.

Android:digits sets which characters are allowed to be entered. such as "1234567890.+-*/% ()"

Android:drawablebottom output a drawable, slice below the text. If you specify a color, the background of text is set to that color, and the latter is overridden when used with background.

Android:drawableleft on the left side of the text output a drawable, slice.

Android:drawablepadding sets the spacing between text and drawable (picture), used with Drawableleft, Drawableright, Drawabletop, Drawablebottom, Can be set to negative, no effect is used alone.

Android:drawableright output a drawable on the right side of the text, a piece.

The android:drawabletop outputs a drawable, a slice, directly above the text.

Android:editable whether the settings are editable. There is no effect here, see EditView.

Android:editorextras sets the additional input data for the text. discussed again in EditView.

Android:ellipsize sets how the control is displayed when the text is too long. The following values are set: "Start"-the ellipsis is displayed at the beginning; End "--the ellipsis appears at the end; Middle "--the ellipsis appears in the middle; Marquee "--display in the form of a marquee (animated lateral movement)

Android:freezestext sets the contents of the saved text and the position of the cursor. See also: here.

Android:gravity set the text position, as set to "center", the text will be centered.

Android:hinttext the text message that is displayed when empty, you can set the color of the hint information by Textcolorhint. This property is used in EditView, but can also be used here.

Android:imeoptions additional functions, set the action associated with the edit box in the lower right corner of the IME action, such as the lower right corner of the Actiondone will display a "done" instead of the default is a carriage return symbol. This is explained in detail in EditView, which is useless here.

Android:imeactionid Set the IME action ID. In EditView again to do the instructions, you can read this post: here.

Android:imeactionlabel Set the IME action label. Explain it again in EditView.

Android:includefontpadding sets whether the text contains extra white space at the top and bottom, which defaults to true.

ANDROID:INPUTMETHOD specifies the input method for text and requires a fully qualified name (the full package name). For example: Com.google.android.inputmethod.pinyin, but the error is not found here.

Android:inputtype sets the type of text that is used to help the input method display the appropriate keyboard type. Detailed in the EditView, there is no effect here.

Android:linksclickable sets whether the link clicks the connection, even if Autolink is set.

Android:marqueerepeatlimit sets the number of repetitions that are repeated when the ellipsize is specified marquee, when set to Marquee_forever.

Android:ems sets the width of the TextView to n characters. Here the test is a Chinese character width,

Android:maxems sets the width of the textview to a maximum of n characters. Overwrite EMS option when used with EMS.

Android:minems sets the width of the textview to a minimum of n characters. Overwrite EMS option when used with EMS.

Android:maxlength limits the length of text that is displayed, and the excess portion is not displayed.

Android:lines sets the number of lines of text, two lines are displayed, even if the second row has no data.

Android:maxlines sets the maximum number of lines of text to display, in combination with width or layout_width, beyond the partial wrap, and the number of lines beyond will not be displayed.

Android:minlines sets the minimum number of lines of text, similar to lines.

Android:linespacingextra sets the line spacing.

Android:linespacingmultiplier sets the multiple of line spacing. such as "1.2"

Android:numeric if set, the TextView has a digital input method. It is useless here, the only effect after setting is TextView has the click Effect, this property will be explained in detail in Edtiview.

Android:password with a small dot "." Display text

Android:phonenumber is set as the input for the phone number.

Android:privateimeoptions setting IME options is useless here, and will be discussed further in EditText.

android:scrollhorizontally if the text exceeds the width of the TextView, the horizontal pull bar appears.

Android:selectallonfocus If the text is selectable, let him get the focus instead of moving the cursor to the beginning or end of the text. No effect after setting in TextView.

ANDROID:SHADOWCOLOR Specifies the color of the text shadow, which needs to be used with Shadowradius. Effect:

ANDROID:SHADOWDX sets the start position of the shadow horizontal coordinates.

Android:shadowdy sets the start position of the shadow vertical coordinates.

Android:shadowradius sets the radius of the shadow. Set to 0.1 to become the color of the font, generally set to 3.0 effect is better.

Android:singleline sets the single-line display. If used with Layout_width, when the text cannot be displayed in its entirety, it is followed by "...". such as android:text= "Test_ singleline" android:singleline= "true" android:layout_width= "20DP" will show only "t ...". If you do not set Singleline or set to False, the text wraps automatically

ANDROID:SHADOWDX sets the start position of the shadow horizontal coordinates.

Android:shadowdy sets the start position of the shadow vertical coordinates.

Android:shadowradius sets the radius of the shadow. Set to 0.1 to become the color of the font, generally set to 3.0 effect is better.

Android:singleline sets the single-line display. If used with Layout_width, when the text cannot be displayed in its entirety, it is followed by "...". such as android:text= "Test_ singleline" android:singleline= "true" android:layout_width= "20DP" will show only "t ...". If you do not set Singleline or set to False, the text wraps automatically

Android:text sets the display text.

Android:textsize set text size, recommended unit of measure "SP", such as "15SP"

Android:textstyle set glyph [Bold (bold) 0, Italic (italic) 1, bolditalic (coarse and oblique) 2] You can set one or more, with "|" Separated

Android:typeface Set the text font, must be one of the following constant values: normal 0, sans 1, serif 2, monospace (equal width font) 3]

Android:height Setting the height of the text area, support measurement: px (pixels)/dp/sp/in/mm (mm)

Android:maxheight Setting the maximum height of the text area

Android:minheight Setting the minimum height of the text area

Android:width sets the width of the text area, supported by the measurement: px (pixels)/dp/sp/in/mm (mm), and the difference between layout_width look here.

Android:maxwidth Setting the maximum width of the text area

Android:minwidth Setting the minimum width of the text area

Android:textappearance to set the appearance of text. such as "? Android:attr/textappearancelargeinverse

"This refers to the appearance of the system comes with," said the system has this appearance, otherwise use the default appearance. The values you can set are as follows: textappearancebutton/textappearanceinverse/textappearancelarge/textappearancelargeinverse/ Textappearancemedium/textappearancemediuminverse/textappearancesmall/textappearancesmallinverse

Android:textappearance to set the appearance of text. such as "? Android:attr/textappearancelargeinverse

"This refers to the appearance of the system comes with," said the system has this appearance, otherwise use the default appearance. The values you can set are as follows: textappearancebutton/textappearanceinverse/textappearancelarge/textappearancelargeinverse/

Android Development EditText Properties