How to align baselines of text in UILabels with different font sizes on iOS?

Question

I need to align the baselines of text in UILabels. What I\'m currently doing is I\'m aligning the baselines of UILabels containing the text, and when the text font size in t

Answer 1

I was looking to do this myself (just now) and found my answer on an almost identical question. It's not simple solution though, we have to do the math.

I only needed to do it with 2 different labels and I'm doing it in a subclass of UIView.

- (void)layoutSubviews {
    [majorLabel sizeToFit];
    [minorLabel sizeToFit];

    CGRect changedFrame = minorLabel.frame;
    changedFrame.origin.x = majorLabel.frame.size.width;
    changedFrame.origin.y = (majorLabel.frame.size.height + majorLabel.font.descender) - (minorLabel.frame.size.height + minorLabel.font.descender);
    minorLabel.frame = changedFrame;
}