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From: Cristiano Santos <cristianomnsantos@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 02:10:36 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Wrong height when TextInput has an empty string

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The caret/cursor did not appear when the TextInput was empty. Found that the cause was because the frame of the TextInput had an height of 0

Just fill and clear a TextInput and the caret/cursor will always appear there.

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[IOS] [BUGFIX] [TextInput] - This was causing the cursor/caret to not appear since the size of the frame had an height of 0.
Closes https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/18355

Differential Revision: D7319723

Pulled By: shergin

fbshipit-source-id: b0249ab5493b6ac310d1898ff20c0bad78cf82c9
---
 Libraries/Text/TextInput/RCTBaseTextInputShadowView.m | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Libraries/Text/TextInput/RCTBaseTextInputShadowView.m b/Libraries/Text/TextInput/RCTBaseTextInputShadowView.m
index d1fdbcd3d..f5a7ca172 100644
--- a/Libraries/Text/TextInput/RCTBaseTextInputShadowView.m
+++ b/Libraries/Text/TextInput/RCTBaseTextInputShadowView.m
@@ -180,8 +180,8 @@
     // Placeholder also can represent the intrinsic size when it is visible.
     NSString *text = self.placeholder;
     if (!text.length) {
-      // Zero-width space
-      text = @"\u200B";
+      // Note: `zero-width space` is insufficient in some cases.
+      text = @"I";
     }
     attributedText = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:text attributes:self.textAttributes.effectiveTextAttributes];
   }