I m having trouble getting a `Text` composable containing an

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I m having trouble getting a `Text` composable containing an email to display as much of the email as will fit I thought `TextOverflow Visible` would give me what I wanted but it is clipping off the entire com part of the email as soon as it overflows just like `TextOverflow Clip` thinking face

mattchowning · Answer

```Box Modifier width 200 dp Text text = <mailto 0123456789 gmail com|0123456789 gmail com> maxLines = 1 overflow = TextOverflow Visible ```

mattchowning · Answer

I was surprised to see that `TextOverflow Ellipsis` gave me more of the content than `TextOverflow Visible`

Colton Idle · Answer

Whats the intended result

Colton Idle · Answer

do you want it to wrap to next line

Colton Idle · Answer

or is your issue just why is it truncated so early

mattchowning · Answer

gt or is your issue just why is it truncated so early Yes that I d like it to show something like <mailto 0123456789 gmail co|0123456789 gmail co> instead of truncating at the

Colton Idle · Answer

I think that might just be the nature of truncation trying to be smart i know ive had similar issues with hyphenation in the past cc < Siyamed>

Kirill Grouchnikov · Answer

New mode when you get close to running out of space make each subsequent glyph 10 smaller than the previous one

mattchowning · Answer

That s what everyone wants right laughing FWIW the reason I want the text to run up to the very end is because I m using a gradient fade to show overflow

Colton Idle · Answer

Interesting makes sense as a usecase i wonder if the issue is the like if you remove the in gmail does everything work fine

mattchowning · Answer

That s right the issue seems to be the period If I just pass in a long number it works like I would like

Colton Idle · Answer

yeah sounds like the hyphenation issue i had not sure what your solution will be sorry but hopefully siyamed can chime in

Albert Chang · Answer

Not answering your original question but to achieve what you want you can apply `Modifier wrapContentWidth align = Alignment Start unbounded = true ` on the `Text`

Siyamed · Answer

Do we have softwrap or singleline in Text I know we had softwrap softwrap should do

Siyamed · Answer

MaxLines is max number of text limne Your text becomes two lines and second line is clipped

Siyamed · Answer

Just check material Text has softwrap set it to false if you want to prevent any auto lone breaking

mattchowning · Answer

Thanks so much for your help I ended up using `softWrap` which worked perfectly tada `wrapContentWidth` also worked well it just didn t work as well as `softWrap` for me

Colton Idle · Answer

Nice TIL of softWrap lol