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KellysOnTop23
KellysOnTop23

Reputation: 1435

Change a UIButton's text (padding) programmatically in Swift

Still learning Swift and don't know Objective-C. I saw that in order to changing a button's text programmatically requires the use of titleEdgeInsets but I am not really sure how to use it.

I would like to change the text in the button (padding) in the bottom and both the left and the right.

Thanks for any responses and/or examples!

Upvotes: 70

Views: 83644

Answers (8)

Oliver Pearmain
Oliver Pearmain

Reputation: 20590

With iOS 15 contentEdgeInsets is deprecated so you need to use the following...

var configuration = UIButton.Configuration.plain() // there are several options to choose from instead of .plain()
configuration.contentInsets = NSDirectionalEdgeInsets(top: 24, leading: 24, bottom: 24, trailing: 24)
button.configuration = configuration

Upvotes: 6

JESTIN SAJI
JESTIN SAJI

Reputation: 83

For xcode 13.4 and iOS 12 Tested and working To make space to both sides of a button

ButtonName.contentEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 20, bottom: 0, right: 20)

Upvotes: -1

Ahmet Gokdayi
Ahmet Gokdayi

Reputation: 301

Or you can use a custom class if you don't want to define the properties everytime you create a button;

class UIPaddedButton: UIButton {
  let padding = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 10, bottom: 0, right: 10)

  required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
    super.init(coder: coder)
  }

  override init(frame: CGRect) {
    super.init(frame: frame)
  }

  override func titleRect(forContentRect contentRect: CGRect) -> CGRect {
    return contentRect.inset(by: padding)
  }
}

And when initializing;

let btn = UIPaddedButton()

Upvotes: -1

7stud
7stud

Reputation: 48589

Still valid for: iOS 12/Xcode 10/Swift 4.2/OSX 10.13.2

iOS 9.1/Xcode 7.1/Swift 2.1/OSX 10.10.5:

The method titleEdgeInsets didn't work for me. My button's frame tightly hugs the text (I didn't specify a frame size), and the frame has a red background color. After doing: 

 myButton.titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(10,10,10,10)

the red background shrunk inwards by 10 pixels on each side, which meant that now some of the text was outside the red background. Using negative values had no effect on the original frame size.

I was able to get padding around the text, effectively making the frame bigger, by doing:

myButton.contentEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(5,5,5,5)

Upvotes: 175

Dev2rights
Dev2rights

Reputation: 3487

iOS 10 and Swift 3 example

Tested and works on IOS 11 and Swift 4.

refineButton.contentEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 5, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0)

Upvotes: 63

Nike Kov
Nike Kov

Reputation: 13698

You can also do this in the storyboard:
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Upvotes: 27

Hannes
Hannes

Reputation: 2501

For iOS 9.1/Xcode 7.1/Swift 2.1

@IBOutlet weak var ratingButton: UIButton!

override func viewDidLoad() {
    ratingButton.contentEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top:15,right:10,bottom:15,left:10)

    super.viewDidLoad()
}

Upvotes: 6

Ali Raza
Ali Raza

Reputation: 1221

You can add padding from top, left, right and bottom by doing these lines of code.

button.titleEdgeInsets.left = 10; // add left padding.
button.titleEdgeInsets.right = 10; // add right padding.
button.titleEdgeInsets.top = 10; // add top padding.
button.titleEdgeInsets.bottom = 10; // add bottom padding.

Upvotes: 31

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