Is it possible to vertically align text inside labels with a “large” frame

Question

In my application I have multiple tableviews with custom cells. Some of the text in the cells are spread out on between 2-4 lines so the height of the label is large enough

Answer 1

In iOS 7 sizeWithFont: is now deprecated! Several solutions like subclassing UILabel have to be adapted.

My solution for top aligned label text: In a subclass TopVerticalAlignmentLabel : UILabel override drawRect: as follows:

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    CGRect labelStringRect = [self.text boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(self.frame.size.width, CGFLOAT_MAX)
                                                     options:(NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin|NSStringDrawingUsesFontLeading)
                                                  attributes:@{ NSFontAttributeName: self.font, /* further attributes */}
                                                     context:nil];

    [super drawTextInRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.frame.size.width, labelStringRect.size.height)];
}