I am using kivy to make a very simple gui for an application. Nothing complex, very simple layout.

Nevertheless I am having a hard time with TextInputs...They always display with full height and I can't manage to make them adjust to a "reasonable" text-height like height.

I am using the kv files style since I find it cleaner and easier to integrate it in an already existing app...I would like to reduce as much as possible the gui-python code of the app.

Here is what I got for the TextInput (useless to add other parts of the gui).

Python code

# textInput.py
from kivy import require
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout
from kivy.lang.builder import BuilderBuilder.load_file('path/to/kv/file/textInput.kv')require('1.10.0')class MainScreen(BoxLayout):passclass Test(App):def build(self):self.title = 'Testing textInput'return MainScreen()if __name__ == '__main__':Test().run()

KV code

# textInput.kv
<MainScreen>orientation: 'vertical'# Third section titleLabel:size_hint: (1, .1)text: 'Setup Connection'font_size: 25# Third section BoxBoxLayout:size_hint: (1, .2)padding: [100, 0, 100, 0]BoxLayout:Label:size_hint: (.2, 1)text: 'Host'TextInput:height: self.minimum_heightmultiline: Falsetext: 'localhost'Label:size_hint: (.2, 1)text: ''Label:size_hint: (.2, 1)text: 'Port'TextInput:size_hint: (.2, 1)multiline: Falsetext: '502'

I have tried lot of stuff, in the code here I am trying both to use size_hint and height...but none works..

To set a height of a widget, first set the size_hint_y to None and then you can set the height to whatever you want.

TextInput:size_hint: (.2, None)height: 30multiline: Falsetext: '502'