I can not use a Background Image because cannot fix the position of the start point.the placeholder text is centered.so it is not duplicated.
How to add an icon in the placeholder of an Entry beside using Grid or Layout. Just add it in the placeholder.
I want to make an Entry with placeholder containing an icon . Which is center in the Entry so that I can not use grid or layout to add a Image because this is not the best way.
I think I will have to make clicked event functions of the Image and the entry focus to hide the Image.
The expected result is like that:
Entry
The first way I can think of doing this:
If the icon you would like to use is a generic icon, FontAwesome is a fantastic fontkit that displays icons in the place of text. I have implemented it into Xamarin Forms many times. Here are some tutorials on how to do that:
https://www.wintellect.com/using-fontawesome5-xamarin-forms/
https://doumer.me/icons-with-font-awesome-5-xamarin-forms/
What you would do is set the FontFamily of the entry field to FontAwesome, and then add a textchanged event on text length > 0 change the fontfamily to your normal font, on text length = 0 (Place holder displayed) Change font family to FontAwesome.
The second way I can think of doing this:
Create a Xamarin Forms Custom Renderer for all of the platforms you are using. whereby you will on the native level alter how the Entry field functions to display an icon in its placeholder. To do this you will either need some native expierience on both platforms or some patience and learning about the native platforms.
If you need further help feel free to drop a comment :)
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the picture of code, in "content" property, it's value is a shape!
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as you see in above image, specific part of my code!
I have style sheet in a project (that has been written before by another) that it have some css codes, and inside that, like bellow, have a property that, inside its value, it shows icon image!
i cant understand that, how inserted/created that!
my code:
.o-icon--close:before {
content: "";
}
my problem:
how he/she has written/created that icon shape inside CONTENT property.
it isn't a copy/paste an icon shape.
it isn't a text code!
as here isn't IDE, it shows a vertical rectangle, but in IDE it is shape of icon itself! like a music sign or what ever.
i know that, for CONTENT value, we can use fontawesome codes or other texts, but i can't understand how insert icon itself as a shape!
Im creating a dropdown for post type using xamarin forms and syncfusion combobox. How to increase the left padding for the watermark(placeholder) to make it aligned with the placeholder position in picker or editor?
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Unfortunately, from Customizing ComboBox in Xamarin ComboBox (SfComboBox) , there is no more way to change the position of Watermark.
The only idea I found that is add some space before word to make it work.
For example: Watermark=" Enter 'A' to filter suggestions"
The effect:
I want to create a tappable button with an icon and some text.. kind of like how the map app does it. See the attached picture below.
I've currently tried having a button that is set to the Group mode for content. However, this makes the background clear and I wasn't sure if there were any better options. Another option that came to my mind was creating a table view with one cell that took up half the width but that would be very hacky as well.
Just create two groups. Then you can change the background color, add an image and text label. To make it clickable simply add a tapGestureRecognizer to the group and it will function just like a button.
Is there any way to create a textInput box for flex mobile with inline image without using textflow ?
Basically i need a text input component , so that user can just use it as normal text input box but to it images can also be entered inline with text. To enter images user can select the image from list and that image will get inserted at the current cursor position.
If you look at any platform, there is no user experience (as far as I've seen) that lets you add images in the text input box. It's always been straight text, except for android which replaces certain text with icons (like :-) becomes an android icon). I don't think your users would expect that behaviour. If you really do need it, I would recommend you create a custom skin for your textinput box and add that feature into it, but it won't be easy to do.
I'm having this problem of adding an image to the textArea in RichTextEditor (RTE) on the fly and this image seems to "reset" the html properties of the textArea.
Better explained:
The user starts writing something in the TextArea (with Verdana in size:12 font settings). When he adds an image to the text area, the cursor right after the image gets very small and the font settings are reset to HUM777B in size:2.
How could I avoid this behavior?
It seems Flex adds additional HTML code before the image tag. If there was any way to avoid this I would be able to add my own settings to the tags.
Just before you programmatically add the image to the textArea, create a variable and store a reference to the textArea styling info. Set the styling info using this variable after you have added the image.