How to Increase Line spacing in UILabel in Swift

Question

I have a label which has few lines of text and I want to increase the spacing between the lines. There are similar questions asked by others but the solutions don't solve my problems. Also my label may or may not contain paragraphs. I am new to Swift. Is there a solution using storyboard? Or only through NSAttributedString its possible?

Answer 1

Programatically add LineSpacing to your UILabel using following snippet.

Earlier Swift version

let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "Your text")

// *** Create instance of `NSMutableParagraphStyle`
let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()

// *** set LineSpacing property in points ***
paragraphStyle.lineSpacing = 2 // Whatever line spacing you want in points

// *** Apply attribute to string ***
attributedString.addAttribute(NSParagraphStyleAttributeName, value:paragraphStyle, range:NSMakeRange(0, attributedString.length))

// *** Set Attributed String to your label ***
label.attributedText = attributedString

Swift 4.0

let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "Your text")

// *** Create instance of `NSMutableParagraphStyle`
let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()

// *** set LineSpacing property in points ***
paragraphStyle.lineSpacing = 2 // Whatever line spacing you want in points

// *** Apply attribute to string ***
attributedString.addAttribute(NSAttributedStringKey.paragraphStyle, value:paragraphStyle, range:NSMakeRange(0, attributedString.length))

// *** Set Attributed String to your label ***
label.attributedText = attributedString

Swift 4.2

let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "Your text")

// *** Create instance of `NSMutableParagraphStyle`
let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()

// *** set LineSpacing property in points ***
paragraphStyle.lineSpacing = 2 // Whatever line spacing you want in points

// *** Apply attribute to string ***
attributedString.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.paragraphStyle, value:paragraphStyle, range:NSMakeRange(0, attributedString.length))

// *** Set Attributed String to your label ***
label.attributedText = attributedString