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TextField maxLines = null should occupy all the area available to it #18825
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This is my opinion, so check if it makes sense to you.
Personally I think what makes sense is that if you set maxLines=null it logically means it is unbounded, reason why the textField should inherit it's parents constraints instead of starting with one line and growing to it.
If the current behaviour is required by some people, then I suggest a flag be added to control whether it should minimize or maximize it's footprint, similarly to the column with it's MainAxisSize.min and MainAxisSize.max
This is what I propose so that the TextField's syntax makes a little more sense, at least to me.
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InsanityOnABun commentedon Jul 5, 2018
I would like to see this as well.
Edit: apologies on the unneeded comment, I looked at the reaction list first but on desktop it isn't clear that the thumbs up is a "+1" or upvote.
zoechi commentedon Jul 5, 2018
@InsanityOnABun Upvote using add reaction on the initial comment instead of a comment would make it easier to track the number of affected developers and set the priority.
justinmc commentedon Jan 29, 2019
Indeed we can't change the current API since we need to maintain backwards compatibility, but I've proposed adding an
expandsparameter that should make this sort of thing doable: #27205zoechi commentedon Jan 29, 2019
Looks like a dup of #15388
justinmc commentedon Mar 8, 2019
Closing this with #27205.
With that PR, you can allow a
TextFieldto inherit its parent's constraints by setting the newexpandsparameter to true. SettingmaxLines: nullwill continue to mean that theTextFieldgrows with its content, in order to maintain backwards compatibility.github-actions commentedon Aug 15, 2021
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