Counter in Textfield

[ingdesarr1]

Question

Good morning. I'm using a Textfield, and I want to limit the characters to 15, but I dont want to see the counter under the Textfield. I'm trying to delete using counter_text = None or '', but still appearing. In the documentation, show a property called counter, but it doesn't exist. Im using flet = 0.21.2. How can I delete this. Thanks

Code sample

ft.TextField(
            label="Motivo",
            expand=2,
            visible=False,
            on_change=self.mensaje,
            max_length=15,
            counter_text='',
            input_filter=ft.TextOnlyInputFilter(),
            capitalization="CHARACTERS"
        )

Error message

No response

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• I have searched for answers to my question both in the issues and in previous discussions.

[ap4499]

Hi - I think this is a bug, when the counter is set to a blank string or None, the documentation indicates that it should demonstrate the behaviour that you describe.

I've tested this on 0.23.2.. I can test on the 0.25.dev later.. but I haven't seen this in the notes for it.

However, in the below - we get to the end result that you are after by using a space.. not perfect, but might work for you.

import flet as ft

def main(page):
    TF = ft.TextField(
                label="Motivo",
                expand=2,
                visible=True,
                # on_change=self.mensaje,
                max_length=15,
                input_filter=ft.TextOnlyInputFilter(),
                capitalization="CHARACTERS",
                counter_text = " "
            )


    page.add(TF)



if __name__ == "__main__":
    ft.app(main)

[ap4499]

Question

Good morning. I'm using a Textfield, and I want to limit the characters to 15, but I dont want to see the counter under the Textfield. I'm trying to delete using counter_text = None or '', but still appearing. In the documentation, show a property called counter, but it doesn't exist. Im using flet = 0.21.2. How can I delete this. Thanks

Code sample

ft.TextField(
            label="Motivo",
            expand=2,
            visible=False,
            on_change=self.mensaje,
            max_length=15,
            counter_text='',
            input_filter=ft.TextOnlyInputFilter(),
            capitalization="CHARACTERS"
        )

Error message

No response

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• I have searched for answers to my question both in the issues and in previous discussions.

Any luck with the above? Also, might be worth raising an issue.

[ingdesarr1]

If I put the space in counter_text, the counter dissapears, but the space of the counter still there, so, the Textfield dows not look aligned with the dropdown, and it looks bad.

[ap4499]

Yeah.. not ideal..

Whilst waiting for that bug fix, I think a temporary fix could be either:

• Adjust the alignment on that Row() to have them all at the top. At the moment, it looks like they are centre.
• Wrap the dropdown in a Container() that is of the same height as the TextField with counter

[ndonkoHenri]

I opened an issue to fix this: #4273

[lastdayafter]

Try using the attribute value counter_style=TextStyle(size=0)