# Thunkable doesn't display my text input **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Created:** [July 26, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-doesnt-display-my-text-input/703500 "2020-07-26T15:41:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jens12341234](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@jens12341234](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jens12341234)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-doesnt-display-my-text-input/703500/1 "2020-07-26T15:41:41Z")
Hi there, because my list is very long I created a text input so it would be faster to get the item. However Thunkable doesn’t display it on the screen. The list viewer drops down when the text input should appear. Does anyone know what could cause that? I haven’t linked my text input at anything yet so it can’t be the code. ![ThunkableLive](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/7/7/771525c47a48ad2f9e5a2c2747f6a845147792e4.jpeg) ![ThunkableWebApp](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/2/c/2caecb1d2abea0aa9196296a78451c1fb29462db.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 12:37pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-doesnt-display-my-text-input/703500/2 "2020-07-27T12:37:51Z")
@jens12341234 - it’s possible this is just on Thunkable Live. did you try installing your app to see if the same thing happened there too? ---
**Author:** ![jens12341234](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@jens12341234](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jens12341234)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-doesnt-display-my-text-input/703500/3 "2020-07-27T12:55:01Z")
No I didn’t Can you download your app on an IOS device? I didn’t know that. I’ll check on it. ---
**Author:** ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-doesnt-display-my-text-input/703500/4 "2020-07-27T12:56:30Z")
You certainly can! The whole reason Thunkable exists is to create cross-platform apps. Here’s a guide from our docs: [https://docs.thunkable.com/download#download-and-install-ios-app](https://docs.thunkable.com/download#download-and-install-ios-app) ---
**Author:** ![jens12341234](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@jens12341234](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jens12341234)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-doesnt-display-my-text-input/703500/5 "2020-07-27T14:09:55Z")
I installed it and it was exactly the same, what do you think I could do? Do you think it would help if I completely delete the row of the text input and put a new one in? In some cases it helps but not always. ---
**Author:** ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-doesnt-display-my-text-input/703500/6 "2020-07-27T14:20:33Z")
There seems to be a lot of spacing between the label that says “Please select a city” and where the list viewer begins. Check out the translator app at the bottom of this tutorial, it seems to be very similar to what you want to do: > [@Making a Search Bar](http://community.thunkable.com/t/making-a-search-bar/60939): > > Note: This tutorial was updated in June 2020 to reflect the new [when Text Input Changes](https://docs.thunkable.com/text-input#changes) block, which makes adding a search bar to your app much easier! This post will talk about creating a search bar for your app. Search Bars are great if you have a lot of text items or List Viewer options that you want to make available to the user without having a lot of items on the Screen at once. This post will describe how to make a search bar with a search button and a search bar that updates automatic… ---
**Author:** ![jens12341234](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@jens12341234](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jens12341234)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-doesnt-display-my-text-input/703500/7 "2020-07-27T17:07:08Z")
The search result is an empty list, all the time. I noticed that if I open it on Thunkable live or in the real app, the text input doesn’t show up but if I use the online Thunkable on my computer it does. ---
**Author:** ![anikathescientist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@anikathescientist](https://community.thunkable.com/u/anikathescientist)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2022, 10:37am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-doesnt-display-my-text-input/703500/8 "2022-03-11T10:37:57Z")
> [@Text Input Doesn't Work frowning](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-input-doesnt-work/1777269/5): > > I faced the same issue after making an update to my app recently (update was nothing to do with the text inputs). after a lot of messing I solved it by going into the advanced tab of the text input and changing editable to false and then back to true. As @martint said in this post (I faced the issue too, and made another topic because I can’t find the solution in your discussion), go to your advanced settings of your text input and change the editable option to false and then true again. It worked for me really well! ---
**Author:** ![muneer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/muneer/32/75210_2.png) [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2022, 11:15am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-doesnt-display-my-text-input/703500/9 "2022-03-11T11:15:22Z")
> [@anikathescientist](#): > > (I faced the issue too, Dear @anikathescientist I know you are excited to have solved your issue but it will not make any benefit to **REPOST** in a thread with the last change was **2 years ago**. ---
**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/thunkable-doesnt-display-my-text-input/703500/10 "2024-11-08T12:26:57Z")