How can I remove all default padding from EditText?

android android-layout android-edittext textview padding

17,173

Solution 1

To remove the padding on the left and right of the EditText, you can use the following:

<EditText
    ...
    android:paddingLeft="0dp"
    android:paddingRight="0dp"
    ... />

Solution 2

If you also want to remove underline padding add negative margin:

<EditText
    ...
    android:layout_marginLeft="-4dp"
    android:layout_marginRight="-4dp"
    ... />

17,173

Jim

Updated on June 06, 2022

Comments

Jim almost 2 years
I am using an EditText and it always adds a bit of padding in my text to both left and right.
Adding android:includeFontPadding="false" did not help and using negative android:layout_marginLeft or android:layout_marginRight just makes the EditText "expand".
How can I strip all padding from the EditText that is being added by default?
```
<EditText
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:minHeight="20dp"
            android:fontFamily="roboto-regular"
            android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
            android:gravity="center_vertical"
            android:layout_marginLeft="-5dp"
            android:layout_marginRight="-5dp"
            android:includeFontPadding="false"
            android:textSize="@dimen/size"
            android:textColor="@color/color"
            android:inputType="textCapWords"
            android:hint="@string/hint"
            android:editable="false"

            />
```
- CommonsWare almost 9 years
  
  Some, if not all, of that is coming from the background, particularly if the background is a nine-patch PNG file.
- dieter_h almost 9 years
  
  Set: android:padding="0dp" android:background="@null" tools:text="test test"
- CommonsWare almost 9 years
  
  "I am not using any background" -- yes, you are. You are not changing the background. Hence, you are getting the standard background for whatever theme you are using.
Makalele over 7 years

So easy, so it just has some non-zero padding by default.
Franco over 6 years

This will remove the padding for the text, but the line beneath it will still have a padding, which makes it look bad (at least in Android 8).
Tomasz Nguyen over 6 years

Try adding android:paddingBottom="0dp" (developer.android.com/reference/android/view/…)
Juan Ignacio Barisich almost 5 years

Franco's comment is right. This answer is not valid for me.
Ivan Syabro about 3 years

Sometimes negative margin isn't a got idea. I faced problems with context popup menu appearance on some Samsung devices
Ian almost 3 years

how can you do this with xml?
Ivan Syabro almost 3 years

@lan I think there is no way to do this in pure xml