How to set right navigation bar button title

ios objective-c uinavigationcontroller uinavigationbar uinavigationitem
user3626407 picture user3626407 · Jul 21, 2014 · Viewed 13.3k times · Source

How do I programatically set my right navigation bar button's title. I've tried

[self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem setTitle:@"Test"];

and have also tried creating an outlet for the button and then trying to assign it a value.

self.rightBarButton.titleLabel.text = @"Test";

Answer

Sviatoslav Yakymiv picture Sviatoslav Yakymiv · Jul 21, 2014

Try this:

self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Test" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:target action:action];

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