Is there anything like `expandedHintEnabled=false` from `TextInputLayout` for a `TextField`?

# compose

[eygraber]

Is there anything like expandedHintEnabled=false from TextInputLayout for a TextField?

[Colton Idle]

I think what you're looking for is placeholder?

https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/tools/dokka-devsite-plugin/+/master:testDat[…]mples/TextFieldSamples.kt;l=96?q=textfield%20compose%20sample

Basically, in compose there is label that is a hint, and then floats up to a label. and you can optionally supply a placeholder which will also stay there as a hint when the label is in place.

[eygraber]

I'm looking for the opposite. Essentially, I want the label to always be "floated up"

[Colton Idle]

I wonder if you set placeholder to just a blank string, and set label to text if that would work.

[eygraber]

placeholder is a composable function so it can't just be set to blank.

[Colton Idle]

Can you set it to Text("") though?

[eygraber]

Yes, but that doesn't change anything; now there's a Text there that happens to not have any text in it

[Colton Idle]

sorry. guess i was wrong with my hypothesis of using those two fields.

[eygraber]

Thanks anyways 😄