Android: TextView: Remove spacing and padding on top and bottom

android textview padding spacing

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Solution 1

setIncludeFontPadding (boolean includepad)

or in XML this would be:

android:includeFontPadding="false"

Set whether the TextView includes extra top and bottom padding to make room for accents that go above the normal ascent and descent. The default is true.

Solution 2

I searched a lot for proper answer but no where I could find an Answer which could exactly remove all the padding from the TextView, but finally after going through the official doc got a work around for Single Line Texts

android:includeFontPadding="false"
android:lineSpacingExtra="0dp"

Adding these two lines to TextView xml will do the work.
First attribute removes the padding reserved for accents and second attribute removes the spacing reserved to maintain proper space between two lines of text.

Make sure not to add lineSpacingExtra="0dp" in multiline TextView as it might make the appearance clumsy

Solution 3

I feel your pain. I've tried every answer above, including the setIncludeFontPadding to false, which did nothing for me.

My solution? layout_marginBottom="-3dp" on the TextView gives you a solution for the bottom, BAM!

Although, -3dp on layout_marginTop fails....ugh.

Solution 4

You can try to use this attribute(ConstraintLayout):layout_constraintBaseline_toBaselineOf

Like this:

app:layout_constraintBaseline_toBaselineOf="@+id/textView"

Solution 5

Updated XML

android:fontFamily="monospace"
android:includeFontPadding="false"

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Updated on April 05, 2022

Comments

700 Software about 2 years
When I have a TextView with a \n in the text,, on the right I have two singleLine TextViews, one below the other with no spacing in between. I have set the following for all three TextViews.
```
android:lineSpacingMultiplier="1" 
android:lineSpacingExtra="0pt" 
android:paddingTop="0pt" 
android:paddingBottom="0pt"
```
The first line of the left TextView lines up perfectly with the top right TextView.

The second line of the left TextView is a little higher than the second line of the bottom right TextView.

It seems that there is some kind of hidden padding on the top and the bottom of the TextViews. How can I remove that?
- Dawid Hyży over 10 years
  
  try to set gravity of this textview to center_vertical
- mmm2006 over 9 years
  
  Hi,George Bailey, Do you have solution after so long time? I encounter this problem too now. Can you give me your solution? thanks.
- 700 Software over 9 years
  
  @mmm2006, Been so long I don't know what I ended up doing. Try the solutions in the answers. If that doesn't work, make a new question.
- Marty Miller about 7 years
  
  This didn't work for me
- Richa over 4 years
  
  any of below answers didnt work for me, can you help
700 Software over 13 years

But then the top line would not line up. And actually I do not care about them lining up as much as I would really like to remove the spacing.
vault over 11 years

do you have some free font to point me to? I need to have no margin on top without assigning negative margins! Thank you!
Jason Robinson about 10 years

This can lead to the bottom of the text potentially getting cut off
Autobots almost 10 years

But it seems always has a 1dp top/bottom padding, am i wrong?(I use Developer options -> Show layout bounds)
theblang almost 10 years

includeFontPadding="false" does remove some of the space, but not all of it. very strange.
Elliott over 9 years

This can be a double edged sword. includeFontPadding is great for removing any additional padding from the font itself but it can cause issues in languages that have ascenders and descenders. I would make sure if you do this that you test languages like spanish and thai if you support them.
Rohit Mandiwal over 9 years

android:layout_marginTop="-5dp" android:layout_marginBottom="-5dp" (Optional) has worked for me.
CoDe about 9 years

After setting runtime it's not taking top padding but bottom padding still there, even left and right padding as well? any suggestion?
vovahost over 8 years

Pay attention because this will remove the padding needed to display some bottom parts of letters like "p", "y", g. These letters will be partially cut off.
Vennsoh about 8 years

For normal alphabets A-Z, a-z, includeFontPadding = false should work nicely. @mattblang The extra tiny bit of padding is reserved for things like $ sign. So includeFontPadding should work nicely for a standard english keyboard. But for foreign languages like a Chinese character, you might get into cropping problem.
Flynn81 about 8 years

Really bad idea of use negative margin. Better to consider a custom view and draw the text exactly as you want.
Bawa over 7 years

perfect for my situation, way better than removing font padding. +1
Tushar about 7 years

Is this question or answer?
Linsh about 7 years

@Tushar It's an answer.
Tushar about 7 years

Ok. Can you please add some explanation with code here.
Linsh about 7 years

@Tushar Sure, but it's a little more.
Makyen about 7 years

While this code may solve the question, including an explanation of how and why this solves the problem would really help to improve the quality of your post (and get up-votes). Remember that you are answering the question for readers in the future, not just the person asking now! Please edit your answer to add explanation, and give an indication of what limitations and assumptions apply.
SergGr about 7 years

Subclassing from TextView and especially overriding onDraw seems to me as a very bad idea. In such a way you will lose all the fancy decorations that Google does or will do in the future releases (and of course no features from the AppCompat as well) and you can't match OEM-specific style of this control on particular device if there is one.
Marty Miller about 7 years

This didn't work for me. I don't understand what I'm missing. I still have unwanted space at the bottom of my TextView
sunil kushwah about 7 years

adding these two line is not working for me and also there is no change in padding
Mohammed Atif about 7 years

@sunilkushwah, it will definitely work if you are doing it properly. Would be glad to help if you can provide more details about your problem.
Mohammed Atif about 7 years

@sunilkushwah You can probably push it on github and share the link
Mohammed Atif about 7 years

@sunilkushwah i see that you are using Brandon Font (Custom Font). Can you once try by removing fontPath attribute?
sunil kushwah about 7 years

i tried this but its not working,Note :i don't want any default padding in TextView
Mohammed Atif about 7 years

What do you mean by any default padding? linespacing removes padding from bottom and fontpaddingexra removes the padding on top reserved for accents. What else do you want to remove?
sunil kushwah about 7 years

means when i view my layout in auto layout bounds it will not show the white space around Textview.
Mohammed Atif about 7 years

Can you upload the picture of screenshot and send the link please
sunil kushwah about 7 years

Let us continue this discussion in chat.
Linsh about 7 years

I changed in a new way.
hman about 6 years

includeFontPadding="false" was exactly what I needed! Thanks.
phnghue over 5 years

If patch like this, you should calculate the ratio of font size too.
Nico Haase over 5 years

Please add some explanation about that
Anshul Rawat over 5 years

i thought this must be understood. I can only be used in xml .
Adil Soomro about 4 years

This trick may not work for different font, sizes or layouts.
Adil Soomro about 4 years

It may work but creating new TextView on every measure event is not memory efficient. Android Lint discourages creating new objects in draw(), onDraw() or any method that is related to layout and can be called unknown times during layout.
Federico Grandi about 4 years

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Darek Deoniziak about 4 years

Actually changing android:fontFamily is not necessary if you already have correct font. Basicly android:includeFontPadding is the only thing necessary and it has been mentioned in previous answers from the thread.
SJJ about 4 years

@DarekDeoniziak Some fonts have spaces
Reza over 3 years

Tnx. this also helped me in an other problem which there is a textview that has multisizeed text. with this solution I can use multiple textview with there different textsizes and with the help of base line constraints I can show them like its one textview.
China fox almost 3 years

same, not working. still extra padding on the top
Jack almost 3 years

@MartyMiller add a attribute on your textview, android:letterSpacing="0"