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

According to the Documentation

This method returns the width and height of the string constrained to the specified width. Although it computes where line breaks would occur, this method does not actually wrap the text to additional lines. If the size of the string exceeds the given width, this method truncates the text (for layout purposes only) using the specified line break mode until it does conform to the maximum width; it then returns the size of the resulting truncated string.

You should to use -[NSString sizeWithFont:constrainedToSize:lineBreakMode:] which has similar behavior but you can uuse CGFLOAT_MAX as the height in the size passed in.