I want to center the text vertically inside a big UITextView
that fills the whole screen - so that when there's little of text, say a couple of words, it is centered by height.
It's not a question about centering the text (a property that can be found in IB) but about putting the text vertically right in the middle of UITextView
if the text is short, so there are no blank areas in the UITextView
.
Can this be done? Thanks in advance!
First add an observer for the contentSize
key value of the UITextView
when the view is loaded:
- (void) viewDidLoad {
[textField addObserver:self forKeyPath:@"contentSize" options:(NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew) context:NULL];
[super viewDidLoad];
}
Then add this method to adjust the contentOffset
every time the contentSize
value changes:
-(void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath ofObject:(id)object change:(NSDictionary *)change context:(void *)context {
UITextView *tv = object;
CGFloat topCorrect = ([tv bounds].size.height - [tv contentSize].height * [tv zoomScale])/2.0;
topCorrect = ( topCorrect < 0.0 ? 0.0 : topCorrect );
tv.contentOffset = (CGPoint){.x = 0, .y = -topCorrect};
}