How to achieve UIButton / UILabel 'padding' in iPhone app

Question

I\'ve got various views in my iPhone application that require padding e.g a custom UIButton with text aligned left, and a UILabel with a background color.

This may be a

Answer 1

What about creating a custom class that extends UIButton and overriding this:

- (CGRect)titleRectForContentRect:(CGRect)contentRect
{
    return UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(contentRect, UIEdgeInsetsMake(topPadding, rightPadding, bottomPadding, leftPadding));
}

In the case of UILabel just override:

- (CGRect)textRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds 
     limitedToNumberOfLines:(NSInteger)numberOfLines;