Align Multi-line UILabel

[svjim]

I have a multi line UILabel which I want to align with some other single line labels. The problem is that I cannot get the label to fill from the top left hand corner of the labels bounding rectangle when the text being displayed is less then the maximum number of lines that I have specified. It always wants to start out in the center of the label. Is there any way around this?

Thanks Jim

[JerryWho49]

Originally Posted by svjim

I have a multi line UILabel which I want to align with some other single line labels. The problem is that I cannot get the label to fill from the top left hand corner of the labels bounding rectangle when the text being displayed is less then the maximum number of lines that I have specified. It always wants to start out in the center of the label. Is there any way around this?

Thanks Jim

Did you have any solution for this problem? I'm having the same one

[Dutch]

Originally Posted by JerryWho49

Did you have any solution for this problem? I'm having the same one

You might need to calculate the height of the textField based on the width, and size its frame accordingly. That is how I accomplish that... I used this method to do it.

-(CGSize) calcLabelSize:(NSString *)string withFont:(UIFont *)font  maxSize:(CGSize)maxSize{
    return [string
            sizeWithFont:font
            constrainedToSize:maxSize
            lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeWordWrap];
    
}

[ThirtyOne]

Very helpful. Thanks.

[ajdavis]

An easy way to use multiline text aligned top-left is to use a UITextView instead of UITextLabel. Just make the UITextView non-editable and disable its scrolling; it'll be multi-line and aligned top left by default.

[ashrafulkarim]

If i make the text view scrollable, it seems the top/vertical alignment is not working. do you know how to fix it?