Limit the number of lines for UITextview

iphone cocoa-touch uitextview
n.evermind picture n.evermind · Mar 7, 2011 · Viewed 76.1k times · Source

I was wondering how to limit the amount of LINES (not characters as asked in other questions) a user can enter when editing a UITextField.

Ideally, I would like to limit the input to max. 10 lines.

Where would I need to start? Do I do this with a method? In

 - (BOOL)textViewShouldBeginEditing:(UITextView *)aTextView

Answer

Jamagas picture Jamagas · Jan 6, 2015

Maciek Czarnik answer does not worked for me, but it got me insights what to do.

iOS 7+

Swift

textView.textContainer.maximumNumberOfLines = 10
textView.textContainer.lineBreakMode = .byTruncatingTail

ObjC

textView.textContainer.maximumNumberOfLines = 10;
textView.textContainer.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByTruncatingTail;

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