I am working on a React-native project and stumbled upon issues when setting width and height using percentage values to a View. I have tried to set width: 100% and height: 100% but this does not work.
function CalendarPage() {
return (
<MainWrapper>
<SafeAreaView style={styles.container}>
<ScrollView>
<StyleContentWrapper>
<Paragraph> Hello World! </Paragraph>
</StyleContentWrapper>
</ScrollView>
</SafeAreaView>
</MainWrapper>
);
}
const MainWrapper = styled.View`
flex: 1;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
background-color: lightgray;
color: white;
`
const StyleContentWrapper = styled.View`
height: 100%; // this does not work
width: 100%; // this does not work
background-color: red;
padding-top: 40px;
padding-horizontal: 20px;
`
A quick explaination for the components:
MainWrapper covers the entire screen and is the base layer. The reason why it nests SafeAreaView is because this allows me to set a background color on the "safe area".
I have also nested another view called StyleContentWrapperinside a ScrollView, because I want everything inside to be scrollable.
StyledContentWrapper or The red box does not cover the entire screen, despite having the styles of width: 100% and height: 100%. Why is this? Setting fixed width and height does work, but this is not the approach I want, because different devices has different widths and heights, and I want it to work for multiple screens with different widths and heights, hence the use of perecentage.
How can I solve this?