Swift : align UILabel text in the top rather in the middle

James Moriarty picture James Moriarty · Aug 3, 2015 · Viewed 29.6k times · Source

I want the UILabel to start from the top even if the text is short it seems that NSTextAlignment doesn't work

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cell.textContent.text = comments[indexPath.row]
cell.textContent.textAlignment = 




func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
    //post's section == 0

    if indexPath.section == 0 {
        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("postCID", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! postCell
        cell.usernameLabel.text = "Steve Paul Jobs"
         cell.time.text = "9:42 PM"
         cell.commentsLabelCount.text = "12 Comments"
         cell.textContent.text = "Return the number of rows in the sectioReturn the number of rows in the sectioReturn the number of rows in the sectioReturn the number of rows in the sectioReturn the number of rows in the sectioReturn the number of rows in the sectio"

        cell.layoutSubviews()

    }

        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("commentCID", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! commentCell
        // Configure the cell...
      cell.layoutSubviews()

    cell.usernameLabel.text = "Steve Paul Jobs"
    cell.time.text = "9:42 PM"
    cell.textContent.text = comments[indexPath.row]
     cell.textContent.textAlignment = NSTextAlignment.Left


        return cell



}


import UIKit

class commentCell: UITableViewCell {
    @IBOutlet weak var textContent: UILabel!
    @IBOutlet weak var time: UILabel!
    @IBOutlet weak var userImage: UIImageView!
    @IBOutlet weak var usernameLabel: UILabel!

override func awakeFromNib() {
    super.awakeFromNib()
    // Initialization code
    userImage.layer.cornerRadius = 2
    userImage.clipsToBounds = true

}
override func layoutSubviews() {
    super.layoutSubviews()
    textContent.sizeToFit()
}

Answer

isaced picture isaced · Aug 3, 2015

Using Auto Layout in Storyboard will be very simple:

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and

label.numberOfLines = 0;