UILabel - Wordwrap text

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Codezy picture Codezy · Jul 13, 2009 · Viewed 102.5k times · Source

Is there any way to have a label wordwrap text as needed? I have the line breaks set to word wrap and the label is tall enough for two lines, but it appears that it will only wrap on line breaks. Do I have to add line breaks to make it wrap properly? I just want it to wrap if it can't fit it in horizontally.

Answer

Kendall Helmstetter Gelner picture Kendall Helmstetter Gelner · Jul 13, 2009

If you set numberOfLines to 0 (and the label to word wrap), the label will automatically wrap and use as many of lines as needed.

If you're editing a UILabel in IB, you can enter multiple lines of text by pressing option+return to get a line break - return alone will finish editing.

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