LineEdit placeholder is not aligned correctly with center and right alignment.

[nyenye]

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Bugsquad note: This issue has been confirmed several times already. No need to confirm it further.

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Godot version:
Godot 3.0.2

OS/device including version:
Archlinux

Issue description:
Placeholder on LineEdits is misplaced when alignment is center or right. Shown on image below. Username is Left, Password is Center. When alignment is right, it doesn't show (it probably overflows and clips)

[Calinou]

I can reproduce this on commit 59b8166. Pictured below are labels containing text and placeholder text, with left, center and right alignments:

[Nolkaloid]

Can reproduce on 3.0.2 stable

[akien-mga]

I'm confused, @Calinou's screenshot seems to show that the bug is the same whether it's a placeholder text or normal text, but @nobelix's screenshot shows only placeholder as buggy.

[nyenye]

@akien-mga For me, it's only placeholders, with v3.0.2.stable.custom_build.

Center:

Right:

Left:

[robfram]

It's strange, #18095 should have fixed all of this. Could you try the test project attached in #17113?
I will take a look as soon as I can.

[Nolkaloid]

Maybe Calinou meant can't instead of can

[nyenye]

@nobelix Ooh, indeed could be the case.

@robfram I'll try it out and update this comment.

[Calinou]

On my screenshot, all fields have a placeholder defined but only 3 of them have text entered (so the placeholder displays on the other 3).

[robfram]

Ok, I think I found the problem. It seems to be a problem updating the placeholder position and not calculating it.

TL;DR at end.

Try this steps to confirm all you get the same results as I do:

1. Create a LineEdit
2. Set Text to anything (i.e. Testing) (it shows Testing correctly at left position)
3. Change Alignment to Center (it shows Testing correctly at center position)
4. Set Text in Placeholder to Placeholder text (no changes are shown, still Testing correctly at center position)
5. Unset Text deleting the Testing string (it shows Placeholder text bad aligned at center, using the center as the starting point for the text)
6. Edit Text in Placeholder and simply press Enter to accept the same Placeholder text string as it has (it shows Placehoder text correctly centered)

TL;DR:
For all the LineEdit you have wrong placed, edit the Placeholder/Text property and set it again to force its correct positioning.

Will try to fix this as soon as possible, but feel free to send a PR.

[leakim34]

Still got this issue on 3.1.1

[FeralBytes]

This is still a problem in Godot 3.2.2-beta4. I request the issue be reopened. Thank you.

The font is a dynamic font Black Ops One. The project is hosted here.

[kzerot]

Hi there.
Still have same problem, 3.2.3
Bottom one with placeholder.

[boleanly]

Reporting same problem with 3.2.3 stable and 3.2.4 rc3. Seems like the cached_placeholder_width is not updated when the project is opened in the editor. If anyone needs a quick fix, setting the placeholder_text variable on ready in GDScript fixes the alignment.

There might be other cases of the cached_width / cached_placeholder_width not updating cause I've also encountered regular text being aligned wrong in the editor.

[nathanfranke]

Getting this in 3.3.2.stable

Editing the text makes the issue go away, but closing and re-opening the scene makes it screw up again.

[HGCollier]

Currently still present in v3.3.3

C# Fix

public override void _Ready()
{
    PlaceholderText = "Placeholder";
}

public override void _Ready()
{
    GetNode<LineEdit>("LineEditPath").PlaceholderText = "Placeholder";
}

GD Script Fix

func _ready():
    placeholder_text = "Placeholder"

func _ready():
    get_node("LineEditPath").placeholder_text = "Placeholder"

[rainlizard]

v3.4

The alignment is screwing up in the editor too when changing the font of a LineEdit. I think this is the same issue as this thread's. The issue occurs in-game as well even though I'm not specifically loading a font, I'm using a custom Theme which has a custom font.

In editor:

1. Create a long LineEdit (give it 300 pixels width)
2. Set Text to "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" (something long so the offset is easily visible)
3. Set Align to "Right" or "Center"
4. Scroll down to Font (custom_fonts/font) and load a dynamic font that's larger than the default font

This will cause the alignment in the editor to be incorrect, requiring you to edit the text to re-correct the alignment.

This solves my other in-game issue:

func _ready():
	text = text

[akien-mga]

Fixed by #56837 for 3.5 (was fixed for 4.0 a while ago with a refactor).