How to make UIButton's text alignment center? Using IB

Question

I can't set the title of UIButton using IB as center. My title is multi line.
It is giving like this one

But I want like this one

I have given space in this but I don't want to do that. As it is not aligned exactly for some cases and I know there is a property of UILabel to set the alignment but I don't want to write a code for that.. just want to set everything from IB.

Thanks

Solution 1

Solution1

You can set the key path in the storyboard

Set the text to your multiline title e.g. hello ⌥ + ↵ multiline

You need to press ⌥ + ↵ to move text to next line.

Then add the key path

titleLabel.textAlignment as Number and value 1, 1 means NSTextAlignmentCenter
titleLabel.numberOfLines as Number and value 0, 0 means any number of lines

This will not be reflected on IB/Xcode, but will be in centre at run time (device/simulator)

If you want to see the changes on Xcode you need to do the following: (remember you can skip these steps)

1. Subclass the UIButton to make the button designable:

   import UIKit
   @IBDesignable class UIDesignableButton: UIButton {}
   

2. Assign this designable subclass to the buttons you're modifying:

3. Iff done right, you will see the visual update in IB when the Designables state is "Up to date" (which can take several seconds):

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Solution2

If you want to write the code, then do the long process

1.Create IBOutlet for button
2.Write code in viewDidLoad

btn.titleLabel.textAlignment = .Center
btn.titleLabel.numberOfLines = 0

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Solution3

In newer version of xcode (mine is xcode 6.1) we have property attributed title
Select Attributed then select the text and press centre option below

P.S. The text was not coming multiline for that I have to set the

btn.titleLabel.numberOfLines = 0

Solution 2

This will make exactly what you were expecting:

Objective-C:

 [myButton.titleLabel setTextAlignment:UITextAlignmentCenter];

For iOS 6 or higher it's

 [myButton.titleLabel setTextAlignment: NSTextAlignmentCenter];

as explained in tyler53's answer

Swift:

myButton.titleLabel?.textAlignment = NSTextAlignment.Center

Swift 4.x and above

myButton.titleLabel?.textAlignment = .center

Solution 3

Use the line:

myButton.contentHorizontalAlignment = UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentCenter;

This should center the content (horizontally).

And if you want to set the text inside the label to the center as well, use:

[labelOne setTextAlignment:UITextAlignmentCenter];

If you want to use IB, I've got a small example here which is linked in XCode 4 but should provide enough detail (also mind, on top of that properties screen it shows the property tab. You can find the same tabs in XCode 3.x):

Solution 4

For UIButton you should use:-

[btn setContentHorizontalAlignment:UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentCenter];

Solution 5

For ios 8 and Swift

btn.titleLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignment.Center

or

btn.titleLabel.textAlignment = .Center

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Comments

[Sagar Kothari]

Kumar Rathor - try by code self.yourButton.titleLabel.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentCenter;

[Inder Kumar Rathore]

thanks...but I don't want to set it through IB. :( that's my last option of doing that...

[Joetjah]

@Inder Kumar Rathore: No problem. To set it in IB, you should click on the label, then in the Attributes Inspector, set Alignment to "Center". In my IB (XCode 4), it has 3 icons showing the alignment of text. Obviously, you should pick the middle one then.

[Inder Kumar Rathore]

can you please send me the screen shot... Is this the label of the Button or you have draged the UILabel from the library??? I suppose it UILabel not button's label

[Joetjah]

@Inder Kumar Rathore: Hey, check out the screenshot I added. I have indeed mistaken the kind of labels you use, I was still thinking on UILabel instead of the text in UIButton. The screenshot shows how to align on the UIButton through IB.

[Inder Kumar Rathore]

Yeah I have done it but it just align the button's content.... :( try multi line title you will find that...

[OC Rickard]

UITextAlignmentCenter has been deprecated. Use NSTextAlignmentCenter now.

[Joetjah]

@OCRickard Feel free to add explanation, I'm not actively working with Objective-C or iOS development anymore.

[OC Rickard]

Wouldn't let me edit, but NSTextAlignmentCenter has taken the place of UITextAlignmentCenter. They mean exactly the same thing tho. developer.apple.com/library/iOS/documentation/UIKit/Referenc‌​e/…

[Sullivan]

It has became NSTextAlignment in later versions of iOS.

[Alberto Mier]

thas code not work, the best answer is @joetjah myButton.contentHorizontalAlignment = UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentCenter;

[SwiftArchitect]

The question explicitly mentions IB, as in Interface Builder. This is not the correct answer, as it requires coding.

[Lewis Black]

Swift 4: myButton.titleLabel?.textAlignment = .center

[ModusPwnens]

'Center' has been renamed to 'center'

[finx]

For solution 3, you can just add Line Breaking = Clip, it will transform the text to multiline

[Владимир Ковальчук]

use one "?" in sender.titleLabel? instead "??"

[Brian Hong]

Solution 3 has problem, at least with Xcode 11.3.1: when I change button's title, it doesn't work. when I used btn.titleLabel.textAlignment, it works great.