Is it possible to get the title text to shrink to fit in the UINavigationBar in iOS.
(for portrait iPhone app with no autolayout).
I'm setting the title bar dynamically but sometimes the text is too long and at the moment it just cuts it off with an ellipsis.
i.e. "This is the t..."
I'd like it to shrink the text instead.
You can create your own title view to make it.
Something like this:
- (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; //Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib. UILabel *titleLabelView = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 200, 40)]; //<<---- Actually will be auto-resized according to frame of navigation bar; [titleLabelView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]]; [titleLabelView setTextAlignment: NSTextAlignmentCenter]; [titleLabelView setTextColor:[UIColor whiteColor]]; [titleLabelView setFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize: 27]]; //<<--- Greatest font size [titleLabelView setAdjustsFontSizeToFitWidth:YES]; //<<---- Allow shrink // [titleLabelView setAdjustsLetterSpacingToFitWidth:YES]; //<<-- Another option for iOS 6+ titleLabelView.text = @"This is a Title"; navigationBar.topItem.titleView = titleLabelView; //.... } Hope this helps.
Xcode 7.1 - Swift 2.0 //Adding Title Label var navigationTitlelabel = UILabel(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 200, 21)) navigationTitlelabel.center = CGPointMake(160, 284) navigationTitlelabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignment.Center navigationTitlelabel.textColor = UIColor.whiteColor() navigationTitlelabel.text = "WORK ORDER" self.navigationController!.navigationBar.topItem!.titleView = navigationTitlelabel I used this code for swift 4 (note label rect is NOT important..)
func navBar()->UINavigationBar?{ let navBar = self.navigationController?.navigationBar return navBar } override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() setTNavBarTitleAsLabel(title: "VERYYYY VERYYYY VERYYYY VERYYYY VERYYYY VERYYYY VERYYYY LONGGGGGG") } // will shrink label... func setTNavBarTitleAsLabel(title: String, color: UIColor ){ // removed some code.. let navigationTitlelabel = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 20, height: 20)) navigationTitlelabel.numberOfLines = 1 navigationTitlelabel.lineBreakMode = .byTruncatingTail navigationTitlelabel.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = true navigationTitlelabel.minimumScaleFactor = 0.1 navigationTitlelabel.textAlignment = .center navigationTitlelabel.textColor = color navigationTitlelabel.text = title if let navBar = navBar(){ //was navBar.topItem?.title = title self.navBar()?.topItem?.titleView = navigationTitlelabel //navBar.titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor : color ?? .black] } }