UILabel Word Wrap / Character Wrap
Solution 1
For anyone else having this same issue, I ended-up solving it by using a UITextView
instead of a UILabel
. This was the best solution for two reasons:
It doesn't require any custom behaviour to determine whether the text contains spaces and change the line break mode of the
UILabel
to/from word/character wrap.More importantly, there is an edge case whereby you may have normal words (that you want to wrap on word boundaries) plus extra long text (which you need to wrap on character boundaries). Short of writing some kind of logic to insert a space into that extra long text (at the correct position) to force a "fake word wrap" I can't see any way to handle wrapping on words and characters, depending on the situation, within the one
UILabel
. TheUITextView
handles this situation automatically, breaking on word boundaries or character boundaries as necessary.
For specifics on how I am doing this, I have a one line UITextView
with editing and scrolling disabled. I also set the .contentInset
to remove the padding making it look (to the unsuspecting eye) just like a UILabel
. I am then using the sizeWithFont:constrainedToSize:lineBreakMode:
method to determine the frame of the rendered text, and adjusting the frame of the UITextView
accordingly so that it exactly fits the text.
Hope that this helps!
Solution 2
One way to do this is to set the Lines property in IB.
or from code do this -
textLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;
textLabel.numberOfLines = 3;
So when you set the number of lines as 3 the text wraps till that many lines are occupied.
Skoota
Updated on June 16, 2020Comments
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Skoota almost 4 years
I have a UILabel with the
lineBreakMode
set toUILineBreakModeWordWrap
. This works fine, except when I have a long slab of text with no spaces. In this case it does not wrap the long slab of text but instead just cuts it off once it reaches the right-hand end of the UILabel frame. How can I tell the UILabel that it should wrap on a character boundary in this situation only (essentially equivalent to theUILineBreakModeCharacterWrap
setting, but only for those long slabs of spaceless text).Thanks in advance!
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deanWombourne over 12 yearsThe OP specifically wants 'word wrap' which won't wrap if he has a single word (for example 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch' which is wider than the text box), no matter how many lines you give it :)