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Reputation: 3026

NSMutableAttributedString UILabel is not retaining its attributes when selected

I am having issues with retaining an attributed NSMutableString. I have a UITableView who's each UITableViewCell has an attributed text. Setting the attributed text is no problem, but upon selection, the UITableViewCell's attributes is lost. This is my code in cellForRowAtIndexPath that sets the attribute:

  NSMutableAttributedString *changesStyleString_h = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"Attributes change!" attributes:@{NSFontAttributeName: [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:20], NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor yellowColor]}];

[changesStyleString_h addAttributes:@{ NSUnderlineStyleAttributeName:@(1)} range:NSMakeRange(11, 6)];
cell.mainLabel.attributedText = changesStyleString

might i point out that mainLabel is also a UILabel, no customization there. Any help in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 279

Answers (1)

laynemoseley
laynemoseley

Reputation: 258

I found that I needed to set attributes on the ENTIRE string, or it would do funky things. 

NSString* string = @"1 - some string"
NSMutableAttributedString* string = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:string];
[string setAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName: accent, NSFontAttributeName: [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Bold" size:13.f]} range:NSMakeRange(0, 1)];

This would cause weird behavior when highlighting the cell.

However, when I did this:

[string setAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName: [UIColor blackColor]} range:NSMakeRange(1, [labelTwo length] - 1)];

Everything seemed to work as expected.

Hope that helps!

Upvotes: 1

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