is it possible to set text to always occupy at least 2 lines ?

# compose

[myanmarking]

is it possible to set text to always occupy at least 2 lines ?

[julioromano]

“At least” sounds odd to my ears. How can you have very short text occupy more than one line? What if you have a one char word (e.g. “a”)? How would you split it in 2 lines?

[Tiago Nunes]

I think he means a TextField with at least the height of 2 lines of text

[Tiago Nunes]

I would like to know, also 🙂

[Tiago Nunes]

(Or maybe he meant the Text composable to have at least the height of 2 lines of text)

[OG]

You could try experimenting with passing in a lineHeight, or set maxLines and pad your input text with a bunch of spaces but these are pretty hacky and not 100% correct.

Another approach would be to set the Modifier.height property to be 2*`lineHeight`
But the tradeoff here is it wouldn't work well if user scales text in settings.

[myanmarking]

@julioromano odd to your ears? It is pretty common in xml. You want a text to have the height of two lines, so if you have some text update, the layout won’t jump up and down based on layout positioning

[julioromano]

Yepp I thought you were talking about the text itself, instead you’re talking about the text field 😛

[Rick Regan]

I agree this would be a good feature. Right now I use Modifier.height as suggested above but it doesn't scale with text as noted. (Using Modifier.verticalScroll essentially takes care of this for my purposes though.)