How to make UILabel text appear with ellipsis at the end when text is longer than label's width

Question

My issue is with a UILabel.

The text it holds is much longer than the actual width of the UILabel. So I would like it to appear with "..." (an ellipsis) at the end to denote that there's more text.

I played around with horizontal content hugging priority (made it less than 251) but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Right now it just chops the text when the width fills up.

Solution

It is fairly easy:

1. Create a UILabel called "aLabel" for example.

2. Create an IBOutlet.

3. Do:

   aLabel.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = false
   aLabel.lineBreakMode = .byTruncatingTail
   

Comments

[ppp]

thanks for your reply. I tried it but no effect. Still chops the text without an eclipse at the end. Could it be that I added a width auto-layout constraint to the UILabel?

[Coder1000]

@Polis This is extremely weird. When I create a UILabel and give it constraints, an ellipsis automatically appears if the text is too long. And I did add a width constraint. Please try recreating your UILabel :)