UITextView with hyperlink text

Question

With a non-editable UITextView, I would like to embed text like this in iOS9+:

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Answer 1

Swift 5 This is based on Tejas' answer as a few items in both classes were deprecated.

extension UITextView {


func hyperLink(originalText: String, hyperLink: String, urlString: String) {

    let style = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
    style.alignment = .left

    let attributedOriginalText = NSMutableAttributedString(string: originalText)
    let linkRange = attributedOriginalText.mutableString.range(of: hyperLink)
    let fullRange = NSMakeRange(0, attributedOriginalText.length)
    attributedOriginalText.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.link, value: urlString, range: linkRange)
    attributedOriginalText.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.paragraphStyle, value: style, range: fullRange)
    attributedOriginalText.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor, value: UIColor.blue, range: fullRange)
    attributedOriginalText.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.font, value: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 10), range: fullRange)

    self.linkTextAttributes = [
        kCTForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.blue,
        kCTUnderlineStyleAttributeName: NSUnderlineStyle.single.rawValue,
        ] as [NSAttributedString.Key : Any]

    self.attributedText = attributedOriginalText
}

Don't forget to add UITextViewDelegate to your view controller and set your let linkUrl = "https://example.com"

func textView(_ textView: UITextView, shouldInteractWith URL: URL, in characterRange: NSRange) -> Bool {
    if (URL.absoluteString == linkUrl) {
        UIApplication.shared.open(URL) { (Bool) in

        }
    }
    return false
}

Usage stays the same:

textView.hyperLink(originalText: "To find out more please visit our website", hyperLink: "website", urlString: linkUrl)