Question

I tried everything I could possibly find to right align this EditText element – but it won’t.

What am I missing here? As you can see I tried both android:layout_alignParentRight = "true" and android:layout_gravity="right" without any luck.

ps. the linearLayout is just one element in a parent with RelativeLayout, but I guess that doesn’t matter.

<LinearLayout android:id="@+id/block1"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:paddingLeft = "4sp"
  android:padding = "4sp"
  android:layout_height="25sp"
  android:layout_marginTop = "4sp"
  android:layout_below="@+id/Settings_phoneNumbersLbl" 
  android:orientation="horizontal">

    <TextView android:id="@+id/Settings_phoneNumbersT1"
        android:textColor="#000000"
        android:textSize="14sp"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/Settings_phoneNumbersT1"
    />

    <EditText android:id="@+id/myRightAlignedText"
        android:layout_width="170sp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@android:drawable/editbox_background"
        android:layout_alignParentRight = "true"
        android:layout_gravity="right"
    />

</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

try to use RelativeLayout instead of LinearLayout.

<RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/block1"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:paddingLeft = "4sp"
  android:padding = "4sp"
  android:layout_height="25sp"
  android:layout_marginTop = "4sp"
  android:layout_below="@+id/Settings_phoneNumbersLbl" 
  android:orientation="horizontal">

    <TextView android:id="@+id/Settings_phoneNumbersT1"
        android:textColor="#000000"
        android:textSize="14sp"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/Settings_phoneNumbersT1"
    />

    <EditText android:id="@+id/myRightAlignedText"
        android:layout_width="170sp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@android:drawable/editbox_background"
        android:layout_alignParentRight = "true"
        android:layout_gravity="right"
    />

</RelativeLayout>