How To Easily Implement Flutter Column Scrollable

In this post, we will be practically implementing Flutter column scrollable in our Flutter app. A proper and easy Flutter example will be provided to properly explain step by step on how to make the Flutter column scrollable. After reading this post, I am sure you will be able to easily use Flutter column scrollable.

What is Flutter Column Scrollable?

It defines the process in which the Flutter column widget  is made scrollable so it can show a lot of content when scrolled. As the default Flutter column widget don’t have any scrolling function of its own. We will see how to make Flutter column scrollable with the help of another Flutter widget. So let’s start implementing Flutter column scrollable with a practical example.

Default Flutter Column Widget

To see if the default Flutter column widget has the scrolling function or not, we have to define a simple Flutter column widget with a number of items. We will be using a larger number of items for demonstration.

We will be using Flutter container widgets as children to column widget, we will give that containers a background color, padding, margin to separate them from one another and also give a centered Flutter text widget as a child to that container. We will be using a for loop to create a list of these containers. See below code:

Column(
        children: [
          for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
              Container(
                   margin: EdgeInsets.all(5),
                   padding: EdgeInsets.all(10),
                   decoration: BoxDecoration(
                      color: Colors.blue,
                      borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(10)),
                   child: Text(
                     'Default Flutter Column Widget Items',
                     style: TextStyle(color: Colors.white),
                   ))
            ],
          )

You can see that the bottom shows an overflow of pixels. It means the all the column items cannot be show and its also not scrollable. Let’s now see how to remove that overflow of pixels and make the Flutter column scrollable.

Implementing Flutter Column Scrollable(Example)

To make the Flutter column scrollable, we have to use the Flutter SingleChildScrollView widget. It takes a widget and can make it scrollable. In our case, we will just wrap the Flutter column widget with Flutter SingleChildScrollView widget.

We will just be using the Column widget without writing the above code again, so refer to the above code in case any confusion occurs. In this code, we will show how to wrap the column widget with Flutter SingleChildScrollView widget. See the below code:

SingleChildScrollView(
          child: Column(
          //see the above code to see what comes in this block
 )

As you can see, we have successfully make our Flutter column scrollable.

So this this way, you can easily see a lot of content on one screen by using the Flutter SingleChildScrollView. Hope you like this post. Do comment if you still have any problems regarding the implementation of Flutter column scrollable. I would really be happy to answer all.

Below is the complete source code for the above implemented Flutter column scrollable.

Flutter Column Scrollable Implementation Source Code

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
void main() {
  runApp(const MyApp());
}
class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  const MyApp({Key? key}) : super(key: key);
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false,
      home: Homepage(),
    );
  }
}
class Homepage extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  State<Homepage> createState() => _HomepageState();
}
class _HomepageState extends State<Homepage> {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return SafeArea(
        child: Scaffold(
            body: Padding(
      padding: const EdgeInsets.all(8.0),
      child: SizedBox(
          height: double.infinity,
          width: double.infinity,
          child: SingleChildScrollView(
            child: Column(
              children: [
                for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
                  Container(
                      margin: EdgeInsets.all(5),
                      padding: EdgeInsets.all(10),
                      decoration: BoxDecoration(
                          color: Colors.blue,
                          borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(10)),
                      child: Text(
                        'Scrollable Flutter Column Widget Items',
                        style: TextStyle(color: Colors.white),
                      ))
              ],
            ),
          )),
    )));
  }
}

Conclusion

As a conclusion of this post, we have discussed everything about how to implement Flutter column scrollable. I’d appreciate your feedback on this post. Thank you for taking the time to read this blog post.