React native text going off my screen, refusing to wrap. What to do?

Question

The following code can be found in this live example

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!

Answer 1

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.

Ally Rippley

---

Edit: Tue Apr 09 2019

As @sudoPlz mentioned in comments it works with flexShrink: 1 updating this answer.

Answer 2

The solution to that issue is flexShrink: 1.

<View
    style={{ flexDirection: 'row' }}
> 
   <Text style={{ flexShrink: 1 }}>
       Really really long text...
   </Text>
</View>

Depending on your set up, you may also also need to add flexShrink: 1 to the <View>'s parent as well, to get this to work, so play with that and you'll make it.

The solution was discovered by Adam Pietrasiak in this thread.

Answer 3

This is a known bug. flexWrap: 'wrap' didn't work for me but this solution seems to work for most people

Code

<View style={styles.container}>
    <Text>Some text</Text>
</View>

Styles

export default StyleSheet.create({
    container: {
        width: 0,
        flexGrow: 1,
        flex: 1,
    }
});

Answer 4

you just need to have a wrapper for your <Text> with flex like below;

<View style={{ flex: 1 }}>
  <Text>Your Text</Text>
</View>

Answer 5

this worked for me

<View style={{flexShrink:1}}>
  <Text>some long random text...</Text>
  </View>

Answer 6

It works if you remove flexDirection: row from descriptionContainerVer and descriptionContainerVer2 respectively.

UPDATE (see comments)

I made a few changes to achieve what I think you're after. First of all I removed the descriptionContainerHor component. Then I set the flexDirection of the vertical views to row and added alignItems: 'center' and justifyContent: 'center'. Since the vertical views are now in fact stacked along the horizontal axis I removed the Ver part from the name.

So now you have a wrapper view that should vertically and horizontally align it's content and stack it along the x-axis. I then simply put two invisible View components on the left and right side of the Text component to do the padding.

Like this:

<View style={styles.descriptionContainer}>
  <View style={styles.padding}/>
    <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 style={styles.padding}/>
</View>

And this:

descriptionContainer:{
  flex:0.5, //height (according to its parent),
  flexDirection: 'row',
  backgroundColor: 'blue',
  alignItems: 'center',
  justifyContent: 'center',
  // alignSelf: 'center',
},
padding: {
  flex: 0.1
},
descriptionText: {
  backgroundColor: 'green',//Colors.transparentColor,
  fontSize: 16,
  flex: 0.8,
  color: 'white',
  textAlign: 'center',
  flexWrap: 'wrap'
},

Then you get what I believe you were after.

FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS

Now if you would like to stack multiple text areas within the blue and orange views you can do something like this:

<View style={styles.descriptionContainer2}>
  <View style={styles.padding}/>
  <View style={styles.textWrap}>
    <Text style={styles.descriptionText} numberOfLines={5} >
      Some other long text which you can still do nothing about.. Off the screen we go then.
    </Text>
    <Text style={styles.descriptionText} numberOfLines={5} >
      Another column of text.
    </Text>
  </View>
  <View style={styles.padding}/>
</View>

Where textWrapis styled like this:

textWrap: {
  flexDirection: 'column',
  flex: 0.8
},

Hope this helps!

Answer 7

<View style={{flexDirection:'row'}}> 
  <Text style={{flex: 1, flexWrap: 'wrap'}}> 

This will work

Answer 8

Another solution that I found to this issue is by wrapping the Text inside a View. Also set the style of the View to flex: 1.

Answer 9

I had this same issue and to fix it I had to make sure ALL View parents had style={{flex: 1}}

Answer 10

In version 0.62.2 of React Native, i just put "flex-shrink: 1" in Container of my "Text", but remember the flex-direction:row in View of container. Thank you guys for the help.

My code:

export const Product = styled.View`
  background: #fff;
  padding: 15px 10px;
  border-radius: 5px;
  margin: 5px;
  flex-direction: row;
`;

export const ProductTitleContainer = styled.View`
  font-size: 16px;
  margin-left: 5px;
  flex-shrink: 1;
`;

export const ProductTitle = styled.Text`
  font-size: 16px;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
`;
`;

Answer 11

I wanted to add that I was having the same issue and flexWrap, flex:1 (in the text components), nothing flex was working for me.

Eventually, I set the width of my text components' wrapper to the width of the device and the text started wrapping. const win = Dimensions.get('window');

      <View style={{
        flex: 1,
        flexDirection: 'column',
        justifyContent: 'center',
        alignSelf: 'center',
        width: win.width
      }}>
        <Text style={{ top: 0, alignSelf: 'center' }} >{image.title}</Text>
        <Text style={{ alignSelf: 'center' }}>{image.description}</Text>
      </View>

Answer 12

<View style={{flexDirection:'row'}}> 
   <Text style={{ flex: number }}> You miss fdddddd dddddddd 
     You miss fdd
   </Text>
</View>

{ flex: aNumber } is all you need!

Just set 'flex' to a number that suit for you. And then the text will wrap.

Answer 13

<SafeAreaView style={{flex:1}}>
        <View style={{alignItems:'center'}}>
            <Text style={{ textAlign:'center' }}>
                    This code will make your text centered even when there is a line-break
            </Text>
        </View>
</SafeAreaView>

Answer 14

Non of the answers work for me, so I decided to use a hack, which is to split the text by whitespace and render each of the word separately.

Although it's a hack, the upside is that I don't have to worry so much about messing up the wrapping due to the parent's container style.

// This code is written in Typescript
import React from 'react'
import { StyleSheet, View, Text } from 'react-native'
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    display: 'flex',
    flexWrap: 'wrap',
    flexDirection: 'row',
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    paddingVertical: 8,
  },
})

export const WrapText: React.FC<{
  text: string
}> = ({ text }) => {
  return (
    <View style={styles.container}>
      {text.split(' ').map((word, index) => (
          <Text key={index}>
            {word}{' '}
          </Text>
        ))}
    </View>
  )
}

const Example = <WrapText text="Hello this is a working hack that wraps your text."/>

P/S: Of course this only works for alphabetical writing systems, other writing systems that does not utilise spaces (e.g. Chinese writings) will not wrap using this component.

Answer 15

Unfortunately none of the above worked for me.

I found this npm package you could use the package directly: https://github.com/Bang9/react-native-wrapped-text

Or create something similar like this:

    <View style={{ alignItems: "center", alignSelf: "center", width: "100%" }}>
      <View style={{ flexDirection: "row", flexWrap: "wrap"}}>
        <Text style={{ textAlign: "center"}}>Long text, sooo looong...</Text>
      </View>
    </View>

Based on : https://github.com/Bang9/react-native-wrapped-text/blob/master/src/index.js

Answer 16

my solution below:

<View style={style.aboutContent}>
     <Text style={[styles.text,{textAlign:'justify'}]}>
        // text here                            
     </Text>
</View>

style:

aboutContent:{
    flex:8,
    width:widthDevice-40,
    alignItems:'center'
},
text:{
    fontSize:widthDevice*0.04,
    color:'#fff',
    fontFamily:'SairaSemiCondensed-Medium'
},

result: [

Answer 17

<Text style={{width: 200}} numberOfLines={1} ellipsizeMode="tail">Your text here</Text>