Which theme attribute changes the text color of an EditText's error message

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In my form I use setError("") on an EditText field. My Application-Theme extends android:Theme.Holo.
I have manually set an image with a dark background for android:errorMessageBackground and android:errorMessageBackgroundAbove.

And now here's the problem: The text color of the error message is also very dark and not readable.

I tried changing different textColor attributes in my Theme, but I wasn't able to find the correct one.

May anyone could help me, please? Thank you! Chris

Ok I found out a solution. I actually couldn't find the specific theme attribute, wich needs to be extended. But one can set #ffffffff to the color nedded. That did the trick for me. This is not colliding with other colors in my application, because I set the text colors for every kind of element in its own style set. Hope this helps. — Chris, Jul 19 '11 at 12:31
Could you tell me how did you manage to set the background using errorMessageBackground? I've set minSDK to 7 and target to 16 and I'm not able to use this attribute in my theme, but all I get is: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name: attr 'errorMessageBackground'. My question about this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14127710/change-color-of-edittexts-error-message?lq=1 — scana, Mar 04 '13 at 15:18
[This](http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10378&q=setError&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars) answer should help you to resolve the issue — waqaslam, Jun 14 '12 at 12:45

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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You can change the text color by using HTML Font Tag.

But for customizing background color, you should make your own custom pop up. For more information, Kindly go through this link:- How to write style to error text of EditText in android?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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answered Aug 29 '14 at 12:03

Pradeep

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 06 '15 at 21:24

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You can try this one:

editText.setError(Html.fromHtml("<font color='red'>Error Message!</font>"));

answered Dec 06 '15 at 21:24

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 20 '15 at 07:52

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set the property android:textColorPrimaryInverse="YourCOLOR" to the color nedded.

edited Jan 20 '15 at 07:52

Murtaza Khursheed Hussain

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answered Jul 30 '14 at 14:52

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 01 '14 at 08:27

Assuming you did sth like this:

EditText text = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.myedittext);

you can do the following:

text.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#FFFFFF"));

or

text.setTextColor(Color.rgb(200,0,0));

or if you want/need alpha:

text.setTextColor(Color.argb(0,200,0,0));

Anyhow, you should specify your colors in your color.xml (wayyy better to be maintained):

<color name="myColor">#f00</color>

and then use it like this:

text.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.myColor));

Have fun :)

Won't this change the colour of the EditText and not the error popover? — Cory Roy, Oct 16 '15 at 00:29

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 30 '17 at 13:35

My response works, is in kotlin.

private fun setErrorOnSearchView(searchView: SearchView, errorMessage: String) {
    val id = searchView.context
            .resources
            .getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null)
    val editText = searchView.find<EditText>(id)

    val errorColor = ContextCompat.getColor(this,R.color.red)
    val fgcspan = ForegroundColorSpan(errorColor)
    val builder = SpannableStringBuilder(errorMessage)
    builder.setSpan(fgcspan, 0, errorMessage.length, 0)
    editText.error = builder
}

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 17 '12 at 06:46

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do following in manifest.xml

<resources>
    <style name="LightErrorFix" parent="@android:style/Theme.Light">
         <item name="android:textColorSecondaryInverse">@android:color/secondary_text_light</item>
    </style>
</resources>

answered Feb 17 '12 at 06:46

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Which theme attribute changes the text color of an EditText's error message

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