How to define a Android Multiline EditText

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Lars Vogel

Defining an Android Mulitline EditText Field is done via the inputType=”textMultiline”. Unfortunately the text looks strangely aligned. To solve that also use the gravity=”left|top” attribute.

 <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:ems="10"
        android:gravity="left|top"
        android:inputType="textMultiLine" >

        <requestFocus />
    </EditText>

With the gravity flag it looks like the following.

Without it, it looks like the following.

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