How to calculate the width of a text string of a specific font and font-size?

iphone cocoa-touch uikit
HelloMoon picture HelloMoon · Aug 24, 2009 · Viewed 101.2k times · Source

I have a UILabel that displays some chars. Like "x", "y" or "rpm". How can I calculate the width of the text in the label (it does not ues the whole available space)? This is for automatic layouting, where another view will have a bigger frame rectangle if that UILabel has a smaller text inside. Are there methods to calculate that width of the text when a UIFont and font size is specified? There's also no line-break and just one single line.

Answer

Glenn Howes picture Glenn Howes · Aug 24, 2009

Since sizeWithFont is deprecated, I'm just going to update my original answer to using Swift 4 and .size

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import UIKit

if let font = UIFont(name: "Helvetica", size: 24) {
   let fontAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.font: font]
   let myText = "Your Text Here"
   let size = (myText as NSString).size(withAttributes: fontAttributes)
}

The size should be the onscreen size of "Your Text Here" in points.

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