diff --git a/widget/selectable.go b/widget/selectable.go
index 83b2a2ad..ff4da67d 100644
--- a/widget/selectable.go
+++ b/widget/selectable.go
@@ -160,6 +160,12 @@ func (l *Selectable) SetText(s string) {
 	}
 }
 
+// Truncated returns whether the text has been truncated by the text shaper to
+// fit within available constraints.
+func (l *Selectable) Truncated() bool {
+	return l.text.Truncated()
+}
+
 // Layout clips to the dimensions of the selectable, updates the shaped text, configures input handling, and paints
 // the text and selection rectangles. The provided textMaterial and selectionMaterial ops are used to set the
 // paint material for the text and selection rectangles, respectively.
diff --git a/widget/text.go b/widget/text.go
index ebc784d1..2b4d33a2 100644
--- a/widget/text.go
+++ b/widget/text.go
@@ -447,6 +447,12 @@ func (e *textView) MoveCoord(pos image.Point) {
 	e.caret.xoff = 0
 }
 
+// Truncated returns whether the text in the textView is currently
+// truncated due to a restriction on the number of lines.
+func (e *textView) Truncated() bool {
+	return e.index.truncated
+}
+
 func (e *textView) layoutText(lt *text.Shaper) {
 	e.Seek(0, io.SeekStart)
 	var r io.Reader = e