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Android Styles and Themes in Android Using Styles in Layouts Styling EditTexts and Buttons

Caleb Seeling
Caleb Seeling
1,189 Points

Could this be a bug

Bummer! Don't forget to include 'android:layout_alignParentLeft' in the style!

...I did that...still doesn't work please help!

styles.xml
<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <style name="CustomEditText">
     <item name="layout_alignParentLeft">true/>
     <item name="android:textColor">@color/dark_green/>
     <item name="android:layout_width">match_parent/>
     <item name="layout_height">wrap_content/>
     <item name="android:textSize">20sp/>
      />
</resources>
activity_main.xml
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/nameField"
              style="@style/CustomEditText"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:hint="@string/hint_name" />

    <EditText
              style="@style/CustomEditText"
        android:id="@+id/cityField"
        android:layout_below="@id/nameField"
        android:hint="@string/hint_city" />

</RelativeLayout>

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

You XML isn't correct. While /> is used to close off a with no content inside (only the tag and attributes, called self-closing or singleton tags), tags with content such as values, text, or nested tags need to be closed with matching closing tag where the tag name is preceded with a /. For example: <color>blue</color>