Underlining text in UIButton

Question

Can anyone suggest how to underline the title of a UIButton ? I have a UIButton of Custom type, and I want the Title to be underlined, but the Interface Builder does not pr

Answer 1

Nick's answer is a great, quick way to do this.

I added support in drawRect for shadows.

Nick's answer doesn't take into account if your button title has a shadow below the text:

But you can move the underline down by the height of the shadow like so:

CGFloat descender = self.titleLabel.font.descender;
CGContextRef contextRef = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGFloat shadowHeight = self.titleLabel.shadowOffset.height;
descender += shadowHeight;

Then you'll get something like this: