Textbox DisplayMode = View makes Left Padding to Work incorrectly

[Anonymous]

When textbox DisplayMode options is set to DisplayMode.View it makes left padding to work incorrectly and ignore the values specified.

Textbox is set to multiline.

[v-monli-msft]

Hi @Anonymous,

If you mean the textinput control, then I have reproduced your issue successfully. I have reported your issue to the pg and will update here if I got further information later.

Regards,

Mona

[Anonymous]

Thank you @v-monli-msft that is exactly it.

[v-monli-msft]

Hi @Anonymous,

My colleague just told me below information:

DisplayMode – Values can be Edit, View, or Disabled. Configures whether the control allows user input (Edit), only displays data (View) or is disabled (Disabled). In View mode, input controls such as Text input, Drop down, Date Picker will only display the text value and will not render any interactive elements or decorations. This makes them suitable to be displayed in Forms or as readable output.

https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/tutorials/properties-core/

It seems that this is expected behavior.

Regards,

Mona

[Anonymous]

Hi @v-monli-msft,

If that is correct, I think it is a bad assumption... So imagine I really want a field that the user can only read and not edit...  But in this use case I wanted the text to be rendered with some spacing in the beginning (because the default is touching the border and looks really bad). What is the reason for the padding not work? Is something really basic and working on alot of other tools.

Hope that you can agree and this can be reviewed in a near future because it is pratically the same as changing the font style or size... same concept 🙂

[Anonymous]

Hi Mona,

I have the same issue, and I have to say that having zero padding in an input field that is set to "View" mode is not desirable.  It completely detracts from the typical layout of the rest of the form inputs.

Very often we adjust the mode of a certain input field depending on the value of another field.  This means that while the user is completing a form, the field could be editable or not, depedending on a certain value.  Typically, when the field is in View mode, we populate it with a value so the user can see what the value is, and that they cannot edit it.

It seems like a large amount of effort to make the entire input field visible only when you want to edit it, and replace it with a Label when you don't, or even worse, pad the value with a space and try remember to trim it before updating the source - which are things we are having to do to work around this.

Kind regards,

R

[Meneghino]

Hi @v-monli-msft

This is the same issue I wrote to you about a week ago:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Forum/BUG-Text-input-left-padding-not-working-in-view-...

It would be more useful to address the issue rather than to ignore it.

Thank you.

[CarlosFigueira · Accepted solution]

I've passed this information to the owner of that control. I agree that it seems wrong to have the design properties not being honored in the view mode (especially since the top/bottom padding is working correctly on that mode). It should be fixed in an upcoming release.

[FilipK]

I agree.  We'll be fixing this immediately.

Thanks for bringing this up

[Marc]

Hi FilipK, 

In 2017 you wrote "We'll be fixing this immediately." Seems the issue still remains. Any news on this?

Many thanks, Marc