Adding a CGGradient as sublayer to UILabel hides the text of label

Question

I want to add the gradient as a background to label. I used the following code to acheive that. but the problem is that though the gradient color appears on the label, but t

Answer 1

The suggested answer with the UILabel inside a UIView works. Apparently UILabels cannot have text within them after giving the background a gradient color background... don't know why....

But heres the full code for the solution.... hope this helps someone :)

UIView *EnvironmentalsLabelView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 300, 320, 20)];
CAGradientLayer *gradient = [CAGradientLayer layer];
gradient.frame = EnvironmentalsLabelView.bounds;
gradient.colors = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:(id)[[UIColor darkGrayColor]CGColor], (id)[[UIColor blackColor]CGColor], nil];
[EnvironmentalsLabelView.layer insertSublayer:gradient atIndex:0];
[scroller addSubview:EnvironmentalsLabelView];

UILabel *EnviornmentalsLabelText = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:EnvironmentalsLabelView.bounds];
[EnviornmentalsLabelText setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial-BoldMT" size:12.0f]];
EnviornmentalsLabelText.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
EnviornmentalsLabelText.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
EnviornmentalsLabelText.text = @"Environmental Benefits";
[EnvironmentalsLabelView addSubview:EnviornmentalsLabelText];

Happy coding!!!!