React Native margin acts inside of object, not outside - css

Go to https://snack.expo.io/HJV601djf and open login_screen/components/Form.js. As you can see, the textInput has the style
textInput: {
flex:1,
height: 50,
marginBottom: 20
}
You can see that the user icons are not aligned with the text input. If I take marginBottom out, everything goes ok, but with marginBottom: 20 the icons get dealigned. I can probably fix that by making the text input get aligned vertically too, but I'll not know the cause of the problem.
How can marginBottom affect the insides of UserInput if it's supposed to add space only on the outside?
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This is happening because , in your UserInput.js, you are trying to merge the styles for the textInput while the Image / Icon styles are remaining the same, therefore it is misaligned.
The optimum way to solve this would be to add a textInputContainer style to the component and set the margin to it as
TextInput.js
<View style={mergeObjects(this.props.containerStyle ? StyleSheet.flatten(this.props.containerStyle) : {}, StyleSheet.flatten(styles.inputWrapper))}>
Form.js
<UserInput
containerStyle={styles.textInputContainer}
style={styles.textInput}
source={{uri:'http://www.free-icons-download.net/images/user-icon-74490.png'}}
placeholder="e-mail"
autoCapitalize={'none'}
returnKeyType={'done'}
autoCorrect={false}
/>
and the styles
textInputContainer : {
marginBottom: 20
},
Here's the snack for the same

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Material-UI text field with dynamic rows

I'm trying to have a multiline TextField component that takes all available space depending on a device.
I know fullWidth but is there a way to have something like fullHeight in rows setting, depending on a device that it is displayed on?
You basically want your TextField element to take full height and width of the container.
For width you can simply add fullWidth prop to your TextField element,
<TextField fullwidth/>
For adding required height,
If you have prop Multiline={true} in your TextField element, Material Ui sets numbers of rows dynamically and height is adjusted according to number of row (everytime user hits enter new row is generated), due to this you can not set specific height.
Now to be able to set height manually, you must add prop rows={1}*
<Textfield multiline rows={1} fullwidth />
Now, you should be able to set height with JSS,
import { makeStyles } from '#material-ui/core/styles';
const useStyles = makeStyles(() => ({
inputMultiline : {
"& .MuiInputBase-input" : {
height : '100vh', //here add height of your container
},
}
}));
Now simply add this to className of your TextField element,
<TextField multiline fullWidth row={1} className={classes.inputMultiline} />
For any doubt refer to,
material ui TextField API here and
material ui styles API here.
(although, no proper information regarding this is available in docs)
A solution is to manupulate Material-UI classes using JSS.
I change the height of the input base and align the text at start vertically.
const useStyles = makeStyles(() => ({
input: {
height: "100%",
"& .MuiInputBase-root": {
height: "100%",
display: "flex",
alignItems: "start"
}
}
}));
Add the input classes to your input and it's work.
All the exemple bellow on this codesandbox.

Style ReactSelect menu to display all options with no vertical scroll

We currently have a select made in React with ReactSelect that has a fixed 16 options in the table. Currently, when the control is clicked, the menu appears which shows 11 items and has a vertical scroll to scroll down to show the remaining 5 items.
This would be better if all 16 items showed when menu appeared, with no vertical scroll. We have tried to create the following custom style:
menu: (provided) => ({
...provided,
background: '#DDDDDD',
marginTop: '-1px',
zIndex: 10,
height: // what to put here? we've tried "auto", "fit-content", "100%" and none are good...
}),
is there another element in the select (other than menu) that we should be styling, or is there a better way to style the menu such that all options show?
Thanks!
First, I used the most upvoted answer in this post to inspect the ReactSelect menu (which I wasn't able to do previously). I discovered that menuList has a default maxHeight of 300px, which was preventing the menu from growing larger.
This then did the trick for me:
menuList: (provided) => ({
...provided,
maxHeight: null
}),

How to make Material UI TextField less wide when in Table

I've got a Material UI Table.
I build it like this:
tableValues.map((curRow, row) => {
tableRows.push(
<TableRow key={this.state.key + "_row_" + row}>
{curRow.map((cellContent, col) => {
let adHocProps = {...this.props, type:"Text", label:"", value:cellContent}
return (
<TableCell className={classes.tableCell} key={this.props.key + "_row:" + row + "_col:" + col}>
{col===0 && this.props.rowHeaders ?
<div className={classes.header}>{cellContent}</div> :
<Question {...adHocProps} stateChangeHandler={this.handleTableChange("in build")} />}
</TableCell>
)})}
</TableRow>
);
return null;
});
return (
<Table key={this.props.key + "_table"} className={classes.table}>
<TableHead>
<TableRow>
{this.props.colHeaders.map((header) => <TableCell className={classes.tableCell} key={this.props.id + header}><div className={classes.header}>{header}</div></TableCell>)}
</TableRow>
</TableHead>
<TableBody>
{tableRows}
</TableBody>
</Table>
);
The Question is actually a glorified [TextField]2 created thusly:
<div>
<TextField
value={this.state.value}
onChange={this.handleTextChange(this.props.key)}
key={this.props.key}
id={this.props.id}
label={this.props.label}
placeholder={realPlaceholder}
className={classes.textField}
fullWidth
xmlvalue={this.props.XMLValue}
/>
</div>
... and then wrapped in Paper.
The styles are:
tableCell: {
padding: 5,
},
textField: {
padding: 0,
margin: 0,
backgroundColor: "#191",
}
This works, I get the appropriate content in each cell.... but the Question element is way wider than needed, and appear to have a min width and some padding I can't remove.
The table is full-width until you get to a certain point, then notice here:
that when the window is shrunk below a certain level, the table doesn't shrink any further. Acting as if the elements inside have a minimum width.
As a process of investigation, I change the Question element to simply return "Hi". When it does, the table then looks like this:
(which is to say, it condenses nicely... still too much padding on the tops and bottom and right, but WAY better)
So that leads me to believe the issue is with my Question component. I should note this happens on other Questions as well -- they all appear to have a min width when a width is not defined for them... UNLESS they are placed inside a container that has a designated width such as a Material UI Grid. For example, when placed in a `Grid and the window is shrunk, they shrink appropriately:
So why isn't the Table/TableCell also shrinking the TextField like the Grid does? (or: how do I remove the apparent "MinWidth" on my textFields?) Do Material UI TextFields have a minimum width if one isn't otherwise specified?
For what it's worth, I have tried specifying the column widths of the table -- with success when the table is wide, but it still doesn't solve the apparent minimum width issue.
I have also tried changing the Question component to <input type="text" name="fname" /> and still have the same problem. It's interesting that that the Question component is simply "hi" the problem disappears but that when it's an input, it shows up.
I have discovered that the native input fields default width is 20 characters: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_size.asp
The 'size' property is key here:
Specifies the width of an element, in characters. Default
value is 20
To set the width of the TextField, you must pass properties to the native input field.
If you wish to alter the properties applied to the native input, you
can do so as follows:
const inputProps = {
step: 300,
};
return <TextField id="time" type="time" inputProps={inputProps} />;
For my use case, the following modified the sizes of the TextFields to be 10 characters in size:
<TextField
value={this.state.value}
onChange={this.handleTextChange(this.props.key)}
key={this.props.key}
id={this.props.id}
label={this.props.label}
placeholder={realPlaceholder}
className={classes.textField}
fullWidth
xmlvalue={this.props.XMLValue}
inputProps={{
size: 10
}}
/>
Unfortunately, this is a bit squishy... it neither holds the input field at exactly size nor does it treat it like a minimum size.... There appears to be some heirarchy of sizing in play between GridItems, table Columns, free-flow flex areas, and the actual TextField elements... and I'm not well versed enough to know what always 'wins'.

JSX syntax for dynamic width of Material UI TextField underline React

I wanted to add some padding to my TextField component so I applied that to the root 'style' property.
But now the underline isn't staying within that area and is overflowing out to the right by the padding amount. It also seems to ignore any padding left or right I try and apply to it and just goes full 100% width of the container element.
I can fix it's width using the underlineStyle prop, so for now I've just set it to 95%, however this can get a bit ugly as the width gets a lot wider. But I can't for the life of me figure out how to express 'width: '100% - 5px' ' in JSX??
Is this possible? I'm sure I just have some syntax wrong.
Thanks in advance
<TextField
inputStyle={styles.inputStyle}
value={props.messageValue}
name={props.name}
onChange={props.handleFieldChange}
errorText={props.messageError}
floatingLabelText={props.floatingLabelText}
underlineStyle={styles.underlineStyle}
floatingLabelStyle={styles.floatingLabelStyle}
floatingLabelFocusStyle={styles.floatingLabelFocusStyle}
**underlineFocusStyle={styles.underlineFocusStyle}**
style={styles.fieldStyle}
>
{props.children}
</TextField>
underlineFocusStyle: {
borderBottom: 'solid 1px',
borderColor: grey50,
width: '95%'
},
width: 'calc(100% - 5px)' should work.

appcelerator titanium app left and right nav button has extra space?

I am trying to add custom buttons to the left and right navButton but a spacer seems to appear if I set a backgroundImage. If only the title text is set the spacing is correct. Here is my example to reproduce the issue, I added a borderColor to show that the image is not the culprit.
var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
width: '100%',
height: '100%',
backgroundColor: 'white'
});
var leftBtn = Ti.UI.createButton({
backgroundImage:"/images/headerCmdMenu.png",
width: '81px',
height:'74px',
title: 'left',
borderColor: 'red',
borderWidth: 1
});
var rightBtn = Ti.UI.createButton({
width: '81px',
height:'74px',
title: 'right'
});
win.leftNavButton = leftBtn;
win.rightNavButton = rightBtn;
var nc = Ti.UI.iOS.createNavigationWindow({
window : win
});
nc.open();
Here is a screenshot of the view…
http://imagebin.ca/v/13wq8Jrn1hst
Any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks.
Chris
Note: I did ask this on the official forums, but got no answer after 14 days.
http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/160022/leftnavbutton-and-rightnavbutton-spacer-appears-if-using-backgroundimage-#comment-196608
This is quite long to answer but it might still help someone else looking for same issue.
For images in left/right nav buttons, look for the below points first:
If you only set title, then it will work as expected.
If you set only backgroundImage (not set width & height), then the image will be stretched to take the full space.
If you set only backgroundImage with some width & height, then the button will behave as a normal button with expected spacing and area.
If you set both backgroundImage & title, then it will be the case of this post.
Also remember that always use correct size image files when intend to use as left/right nav buttons.

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