Get the NSString height

Question

I have an NSString, and I want to know its height to create an appropriate UILabel.

Doing this

NSString *string = @\"this is an example\"; 
CGSize si         


        

Answer 1

The reason what you're doing doesn't work as you would expect is because

– sizeWithFont:forWidth:lineBreakMode: 

is for "Computing Metrics for a Single Line of Text" whereas

-sizeWithFont:constrainedToSize:lineBreakMode:

is for "Computing Metrics for Multiple Lines of Text". From the documentation:

Computing Metrics for a Single Line of Text

– sizeWithFont:
– sizeWithFont:forWidth:lineBreakMode:
– sizeWithFont:minFontSize:actualFontSize:forWidth:lineBreakMode:

Computing Metrics for Multiple Lines of Text

– sizeWithFont:constrainedToSize:
– sizeWithFont:constrainedToSize:lineBreakMode:

Try using -sizeWithFont:constrainedToSize:lineBreakMode: instead, e.g. this is what I usually do:

CGSize maximumLabelSize = CGSizeMake(353,9999);

CGSize expectedLabelSize = [string sizeWithFont:label.font                        
                              constrainedToSize:maximumLabelSize 
                                  lineBreakMode:label.lineBreakMode]; 

CGRect newFrame = label.frame;
newFrame.size.height = expectedLabelSize.height;
label.frame = newFrame;