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alvarogalia
alvarogalia

Reputation: 1701

How to duplicate UILabel Style on Swift 3 programatically

I've created a UILabel through storyboard, but now I want to create another one programatically with the same properties of the first one

How can I duplicate or create a UILabel using the same style (font color, background, size, center, bold...) from other existing UILabel programatically.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 754

Answers (2)

Suhit Patil
Suhit Patil

Reputation: 12023

You can create extension on UILabel and add a method to style label.

extension UILabel {
    func applyStyle() {
        self.textColor = .black
        self.textAlignment = .center
        self.font = UIFont(name: "Helvetica", size: 14)
    }
}

now you call myLabel.applyStyle() to use same properties for different labels

Upvotes: 2

Lennart P.
Lennart P.

Reputation: 376

You could create a custom subclass of UILabel which has the properties you want it to have and then when you create you label just set its class to the custom class.

class CustomLabel: UILabel {
   required init?(code aDecoder: NSCoder) {
      super.init(code: aDecoder)
      //your code goes here
      self.textColor = UIColor.red
      self.alpha = 0.5
   }
}

So just add to your project a swift file and add the code above to it. There you can just add your properties.

I hope this helped

Upvotes: 1

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