TheLearner
TheLearner

Reputation: 19507

How to make UILabel wordwrap

Is there anyway of making a UILabel wrap to the next line or do I have to use a UITextView?

Upvotes: 14

Views: 21544

Answers (2)

Evan Mulawski
Evan Mulawski

Reputation: 55334

You would need to set the numberOfLines property to 0 and explicitly specify its dimensions, either in IB or programmatically. However, if you have a lot of text to display, I would recommend using a UITextView.

Upvotes: 21

Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 23359

What you want is to adjust your label according to the content's size.

In iOS 6, AutoLayout will work a charm, you should set the label to have numberOfLines = 0

In a non AutoLayout scenario, you will also want to make sure the frame of your UILabel is adjusted to show the content that's on the next line.

Please check out this answer and sample code for that: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8796896/662605

Upvotes: 1

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