EditorGUILayout.TextArea Wrap

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I have a custom inspector with a TextArea field, but it does not wrap, which is a real pain to work with. I've tried changing the skin settings, but no luck. I'm trying to do the following during OnInspectorGUI, but to no avail:

var skin : GUISkin = EditorGUIUtility.GetBuiltinSkin(EditorSkin.Inspector);
skin.textArea.wordWrap = true;

I've also tried:

function OnGUI() {
    if(GUI.skin.customStyles.Length > 0)
        GUI.skin.customStyles[0].wordWrap = true;
}

But no luck either.

Any suggestions?

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Answer by Steven-Walker · Mar 31, 2011 at 12:00 AM

As yoyo suggested, setting the attribute on EditorGUI.textArea fixes the problem. I add the following line of code and it works:

EditorStyles.textField.wordWrap = true;

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pctroll · Apr 05, 2014 at 11:08 AM 1

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Great! This just worked

Tiki · Jul 04, 2014 at 01:07 PM 0

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Old Post I know, but thx, made this a quick search.

keywords: unity text area word wrap - first answer

adamk33n3r · Apr 26, 2017 at 09:40 PM 0

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This is so weird. You need to set this even if you're wanting to make textAreas word wrap. Setting EditorStyles.textArea.wordWrap to true doesn't work but this does. What???

Spacew00t · Aug 03, 2018 at 05:30 PM 1

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Old post, but it's the first result on google, so I'll add some clarification. Setting this isn't always enough:

 EditorStyles.textArea.wordWrap = true;

You also have to specify the style when you're using the TextArea method:

 EditorStyles.textArea.wordWrap = true;
 value = EditorGUILayout.TextArea(value, EditorStyles.textArea);

This seems obvious in hindsight, but my sleepy brain just got frustrated that this solution wasn't working. Hope it helps someone!

Bunny83 Spacew00t · Aug 03, 2018 at 06:28 PM 2

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Uhm, by default it is using this style. It literally uses it: Though i wouldn't recommend messing up the built-in styles. Just create your own style out of the built in and use that ins$$anonymous$$d.

 GUIStyle myTextAreaStyle = new GUIStyle(EditorStyles.textArea);
 // ...
 myTextAreaStyle.wordWrap = true;
 value = EditorGUILayout.TextArea(value, myTextAreaStyle);

SolidAlloy Bunny83 · Oct 30, 2020 at 10:09 AM 0

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Or even better:

 GUIStyle myTextAreaStyle = new GUIStyle(EditorStyles.textArea) { wordWrap = true };

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Answer by adbourdages · Feb 13, 2015 at 05:32 PM

Here is a simple way to apply word-wrap to a multi line string variable (here applied to a Comment component I use to leave comments in the editor).

 public class Comment : MonoBehaviour {
    [SerializeField]
    [TextArea(5, 3)]
    string comments;
 }

Here is what it looks like: linky link text

It was taken from the UnityEngine.UI.Text component.

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Lumos · Jun 28, 2015 at 03:31 PM 0

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Thanks! Replacing all $$anonymous$$ultiline attributes with TextAreas seems to have no drawbacks, and works brilliantly.

Edy · Jan 22, 2019 at 11:33 PM 0

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This is the best solution, definitely! Other solutions have these drawbacks: height doesn't expand and/or no scrollbar.

hadynlander · Jan 14, 2020 at 01:55 AM 0

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This is absolutely the best answer; clean code, no custom editors required, automatic implementation of scrollbars, specifically targets the field(s) you want it to apply to, etc. Thanks!

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