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I have a `BasicTextField` field which, when cleaning up the text with `backspace` and writing something again, it is raising `java.lang.IllegalStateException: LayoutCoordinate operations are only valid when isAttached is true` . Does anyone know why?

do you hide or show the textfield based on content?

yep, I check for empty to see if I need to replace it with a hint

```BasicTextField(
                value = value,
                onValueChange = { onValueChange(it) },
                ...,
                decorationBox = { innerTextField -&gt;
                    Row(
                        modifier = Modifier.fillMaxSize(),
                        horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.Center,
                        verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically
                    ){
                        if (value.isEmpty()) {
                            Text(
                                text = hint,
                                ...
                            )
                        }else{
                            innerTextField()
                        }
                    }
                }
            )```

this `innerTextField()` is probably being detached when you are removing it from composition (im not an expert), but that might be causing the issue

I'm gonna remove from the else clause, let's see

yep, that fixed the problem. To keep the visual the same, we must have some layout composables like column and row, but it works. Thanks!

If you want something to take the space it wants to, so that you don’t get this jumpiness, but you still want to hide it, you can do the trick of measuring it, but not placing it
Checkout this <https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CJLTWPH7S/p1673314562259549?thread_ts=1673311120.934409&amp;cid=CJLTWPH7S> thread for how to do that

You shouldn't hide it anyway, otherwise the cursor won't be shown when the text is empty.

Can you file a bug with the entire stack trace and link it here? This should work without crashing 

If I find some free time this week, I can open it sure :grin: