On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:49:43 GMT, Karthik P K <k...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> I checked with HTML textfield and swing JTextField. In both the cases, the > text gets aligned to the left (beginning of the text is shown) regardless of > alignment type when text length is more than text field length. In html > textfield, even prompt text has same behavior but in JavaFX prompt text gets > aligned to the center (center of the text is displayed) or right (beginning > of the text is hidden) as specified even when the prompt text length is more > than textfield length. Thanks for checking this, so it's possible the behavior was modelled after this common behavior of other toolkits (or just good sense in general). > The case where prompt text length is more than text field length might not be > frequent but I think we should have same behavior for both. So I think we > should fix either the behavior of the text or the prompt text so that both > are consistent. Yes, agreed on that. I would personally lean towards fixing the prompt text then, but before we keep going back and forth it might be good to see what @kevinrushforth and others think of this. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/980
