How to add right button in the navigation bar?

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Solution 1

The Swift version of Vahan Babayan's answer, as you seem to use this language, is:

let rightButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem.init(
      title: "Title", 
      style: .Done, 
      target: self, 
      action: "rightButtonAction:"
)

self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = rightButtonItem

The following method will be called on self:

func rightButtonAction(sender: UIBarButtonItem)

Note that all this can be set graphically using a Storyboard, by dragging a Bar Button Item to your Navigation Item and right-clicking to set a target-action.


A small update since Swift 3 and 4 are out: the compiler can now check selector names, preventing typos when setting up target-action programatically. So one should really use:

let rightButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem.init(
      title: "Title", 
      style: .Done, 
      target: self, 
      action: #selector(rightButtonAction(sender:))
)

Solution 2

You can add the following code to your B controller's viewDidLoad method.

UIBarButtonItem *rightButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Title" 
                                                                    style:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone 
                                                                    target:self 
                                                                    action:@selector(rightButtonAction:)];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = rightButtonItem;

Solution 3

- (void)viewDidLoad {

    [super viewDidLoad];
    UIBarButtonItem *rightBtn = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]initWithTitle:@"Right Button" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone target:self action:@selector(rightBtnClick)];
    self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = rightBtn;
}

-(void)rightBtnClick{
    // code for right Button

}
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Updated on August 17, 2020

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  • user2262304
    user2262304 almost 4 years

    I have a question to add a right button in navigation bar..

    I have two views: View A and View B

    I add a navigation bar to view A, after I used self.navigationController!.pushViewController to show view B.

    That show a back button in the left of navigation bar of view B automatic, it is good. but now I want to add a button in the right of navigation bar of view B.. I have tried some answers, but it doesn't work... I have tried answers likes : 1) https://www.hackingwithswift.com/example-code/uikit/how-to-add-a-bar-button-to-a-navigation-bar 2)http://blog.apoorvmote.com/add-multiple-bar-button-item-navigation-bar/?lang=fr

    Could you help me, thank you !

  • user2262304
    user2262304 about 8 years
    Thank you for your answer, I have fund the answer to ` let rightBtn = UIBarButtonItem(title: "Send", style: .Plain, target: self, action: "send:") self.navigationItem.setRightBarButtonItem(rightBtn, animated: true)` I know I can use XIB to do that, but I do not why the position of the right button is not the same with by XIB, so I use code to do this