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I've got the following react native element:
'use strict';
var React = require('react-native');
var {
AppRegistry,
StyleSheet,
Text,
View,
} = React;
var SampleApp = React.createClass({
render: function() {
return (
<View style={styles.container}>
<View style={styles.descriptionContainerVer}>
<View style={styles.descriptionContainerHor}>
<Text style={styles.descriptionText} numberOfLines={5} >
Here is a really long text that you can do nothing about, its gonna be long wether you like it or not, so be prepared for it to go off screen. Right? Right..!
</Text>
</View>
</View>
<View style={styles.descriptionContainerVer2}>
<View style={styles.descriptionContainerHor}>
<Text style={styles.descriptionText} numberOfLines={5} >Some other long text which you can still do nothing about.. Off the screen we go then.</Text>
</View>
</View>
</View>);
}
});
AppRegistry.registerComponent('SampleApp', () => SampleApp);
with the following styles:
var styles = StyleSheet.create({
container:{
flex:1,
flexDirection:'column',
justifyContent: 'flex-start',
backgroundColor: 'grey'
},
descriptionContainerVer:{
flex:0.5, //height (according to its parent)
flexDirection: 'column', //its children will be in a row
alignItems: 'center',
backgroundColor: 'blue',
// alignSelf: 'center',
},
descriptionContainerVer2:{
flex:0.5, //height (according to its parent)
flexDirection: 'column', //its children will be in a row
alignItems: 'center',
backgroundColor: 'orange',
// alignSelf: 'center',
},
descriptionContainerHor:{
//width: 200, //I DON\'T want this line here, because I need to support many screen sizes
flex: 0.3, //width (according to its parent)
flexDirection: 'column', //its children will be in a column
alignItems: 'center', //align items according to this parent (like setting self align on each item)
justifyContent: 'center',
flexWrap: 'wrap'
},
descriptionText: {
backgroundColor: 'green',//Colors.transparentColor,
fontSize: 16,
color: 'white',
textAlign: 'center',
flexWrap: 'wrap'
}
});
This results in the following screen:
How can I stop the text from going off the screen and keep it confined in the middle of the screen with a width of i.e. 80% of the parent.
I don't think I should use width
because I will be running this on MANY different mobile screens and I want it to be dynamic, so I think I should rely totally on flexbox
.
(That was the initial reason why I had flex: 0.8
within the descriptionContainerHor
.
What I want to achieve is something like this:
Thank you!
I found solution from below link.
[Text] Text doesn't wrap #1438
<View style={{flexDirection:'row'}}>
<Text style={{flex: 1, flexWrap: 'wrap'}}> You miss fdddddd dddddddd
You miss fdd
</Text>
</View>
Below is the Github profile user link if you want to thank him.
Edit: Tue Apr 09 2019
As @sudoPlz mentioned in comments it works with flexShrink: 1
updating this answer.