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Flutter - TextButton Size
The TextButton class represents a material design text button. The flutter developers can use text buttons on toolbars, in dialogs, or in line with other content. Text buttons do not have visible borders. The flutter developers should avoid using text buttons where they would blend in with other content such as in the middle of lists. The TextButton style can be overridden with its style parameter.

The following flutter application development tutorial will demonstrate how we can set the size of a TextButton. We will change the TextButton widget’s default width and height. In the below example code, we will use the TextButton class’s styleFrom() method to change the TextButton’s default width and height (size).

The TextButton class’s styleFrom() method is a static convenience method that constructs a text button ButtonStyle given simple values. By default, TextButton class styleFrom() method returns a ButtonStyle that doesn't override anything.

The ButtonStyle class represents the visual properties that most buttons have in common. The ButtonStyle class’s all properties are null by default.

The flutter developers can change a TextButton’s width and height (size) by passing a value to the styleFrom() method’s fixedSize parameter.

The styleFrom() method’s fixedSize parameter value is a Size instance, which holds a 2D floating-point size. Here we used the Size class Size(double width, double height) constructors to create a Size with the given width and height.

So we can pass our specified width and height value to this Size(double width, double height) constructor to set the specified size of the TextButton widget. Here we also add a solid border to the TextButton widget to clearly visible the TextButton size (height and width).

So finally, the flutter app developers can change the TextButton widget’s size (width and height) by passing a value to the TextButton class’s styleFrom() method fixedSize parameter.
main.dart

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main(){
  runApp(
    MaterialApp(
      theme: ThemeData(primarySwatch: Colors.indigo),
      home: Scaffold(
          appBar: AppBar(
              title: const Text("Flutter - TextButton Size")
          ),
          body: Center(
            child: TextButton(
                onPressed: (){},
                child: const Text("Click Me"),
                style: TextButton.styleFrom(
                    fixedSize: const Size(200,75),
                    side: BorderSide(
                        color: Colors.indigo.shade100, width: 1
                    )
                )
            ),
          )
      ),
    ),
  );
}

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