Change height constraint programmatically

Question

I want to change the height constraint of a UITextView programmatically so I set the constraint as an outlet in my controller like this:

@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet NSLayoutConstraint *descriptionHeightConstraint;

To change it I do the following:

self.descriptionHeightConstraint.constant = self.description.contentSize.height;

This works if I do it in viewDidAppear but the problem with this is that I can see how the height changes after the view displayed which is not very user friendly so I tried doing it in viewWillAppear but didn't work there, the height doesn't change. Calling setNeedsUpdateConstraints after changing the constraint didn't work either.

Why is working in viewDidAppear and not in viewWillAppear? Any workaround?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Try setting the constant in viewDidLayoutSubviews instead.

Note that using the text view's contentSize property to set the text view's height does not work in iOS 7. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/18837714/1239263