how to get a Flex text control to word wrap

apache-flex text word-wrap
rmeador picture rmeador · Feb 11, 2009 · Viewed 50.9k times · Source

I'm creating an Adobe Flex application and I have a Text control (mx:Text), which is supposedly used when you need multiline noneditable text (as opposed to a Label, which is single line noneditable text). My text control does not wrap when I resize the browser window to be smaller than the text (or load it with the browser window already smaller). Upon consulting this doc that I found, it would seem that the word-wrap functionality only happens if you specify an absolute width in pixels. That is exactly what I'm trying to avoid. I want the text to wrap to fit inside the size given to my Flash object so that it is always visible... is there any way to accomplish this, through some property I'm missing or perhaps a different control? Thanks.

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Jon Kinsting picture Jon Kinsting · Mar 16, 2009

I had this same problem. In my case I had a mx:Text block (that SHOULD have wrapped), and that mx:Text object was embedded within TWO mx:VBox containers.

The only way that I got the text to wrap successfully was to do BOTH of the following:

  1. put the ' width="100%" ' property into EACH VBox container (in which the mx:text resided).
  2. put the ' width="100%" ' property into EACH mx:Text object (residing within this nesting of VBox's)

Very non-intuitive, but this is what worked for me.

I hope this helps you!

Jon Kinsting

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