How to highlight only text in UILabel - IOS

Question

I just want to highlight only text in UILabel, I have tried by giving backgroundColor for label, but it is highlighting the empty spaces also looks

Answer 1

You can have a UIImageView, set its background color of your choice then place your UIlabel on it. That will surely solve your problem. Here is Workaround code :

 UIImageView * imgView = [[UIImageView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 10, 100, 40)];
 [imgView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor brownColor]];
 [self.view addSubview:imgView];


UILabel * label = [[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 40)];
[label setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
[label setTextAlignment:UITextAlignmentCenter];
label.text = @"My Label";
[imgView addSubview:label];


[label release];
[imgView release];

You can also achieve the same using Interface Builder.