Label under image in UIButton

Question

I\'m trying to create a button which has some text beneath the icon (sorta like the app buttons) however it seems to be quite difficult to achieve. Any ideas how can I go ab

Answer 1

Top image and bottom title button with subclassing UIButton

class VerticalButton: UIButton {
  override func layoutSubviews() {
    super.layoutSubviews()
    let padding: CGFloat = 8
    let iH = imageView?.frame.height ?? 0
    let tH = titleLabel?.frame.height ?? 0
    let v: CGFloat = (frame.height - iH - tH - padding) / 2
    if let iv = imageView {
      let x = (frame.width - iv.frame.width) / 2
      iv.frame.origin.y = v
      iv.frame.origin.x = x
    }

    if let tl = titleLabel {
      let x = (frame.width - tl.frame.width) / 2
      tl.frame.origin.y = frame.height - tl.frame.height - v
      tl.frame.origin.x = x
    }
  }
}

Answer 2

Instead of going through hell trying to position the icon and the text with edge insets, you could create a NSAttributedString with your image as an attachment and set it to your button's attributed title instead:

let titleText = NSAttributedString(string: yourTitle, attributes: attributes)
let imageAttachment = NSTextAttachment()
imageAttachment.image = yourImage

let title = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "")
title.append(NSAttributedString(attachment: imageAttachment))
title.append(titleText)

button.setAttributedTitle(title, for: .normal)

Answer 3

Localization Friendly Solution:

So many great solutions guys, but I'd like to add a note here for those who use localization.

You need to reverse the left and right EdgeInstets values to get the button laid out correctly in case of a change of language direction from LtR to RtL.

Using a similar solution I'd implement it as follows:

extension UIButton {

    func alignVertical(spacing: CGFloat, lang: String) {
        guard let imageSize = self.imageView?.image?.size,
            let text = self.titleLabel?.text,
            let font = self.titleLabel?.font
        else { return }

        let labelString = NSString(string: text)
        let titleSize = labelString.size(
            withAttributes: [NSAttributedString.Key.font: font]
        )

        var titleLeftInset: CGFloat = -imageSize.width
        var titleRigtInset: CGFloat = 0.0

        var imageLeftInset: CGFloat = 0.0
        var imageRightInset: CGFloat = -titleSize.width

        if Locale.current.languageCode! != "en" { // If not Left to Right language
            titleLeftInset = 0.0
            titleRigtInset = -imageSize.width

            imageLeftInset = -titleSize.width
            imageRightInset = 0.0
        }

        self.titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(
            top: 0.0,
            left: titleLeftInset,
            bottom: -(imageSize.height + spacing),
            right: titleRigtInset
        )
        self.imageEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(
            top: -(titleSize.height + spacing),
            left: imageLeftInset,
            bottom: 0.0,
            right: imageRightInset
        )
        let edgeOffset = abs(titleSize.height - imageSize.height) / 2.0;
        self.contentEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(
            top: edgeOffset,
            left: 0.0,
            bottom: edgeOffset,
            right: 0.0
        )
    }
}

Answer 4

Refactored icecrystal23`s answer.

Swift 3, works with autolayouts, xib, storyboards, can be animated.

Button in orginal icecrystal23`s answer had a badly calculated frame. I think I fixed that.

Edit: Updated to Swift 5 and made work inside Interface Builder / Storyboards

import UIKit

@IBDesignable
class VerticalButton: UIButton {

    @IBInspectable public var padding: CGFloat = 20.0 {
        didSet {
            setNeedsLayout()
        }
    }

    override var intrinsicContentSize: CGSize {
        let maxSize = CGSize(width: CGFloat.greatestFiniteMagnitude, height: CGFloat.greatestFiniteMagnitude)

        if let titleSize = titleLabel?.sizeThatFits(maxSize), let imageSize = imageView?.sizeThatFits(maxSize) {
            let width = ceil(max(imageSize.width, titleSize.width))
            let height = ceil(imageSize.height + titleSize.height + padding)

            return CGSize(width: width, height: height)
        }

        return super.intrinsicContentSize
    }

    override func layoutSubviews() {
        if let image = imageView?.image, let title = titleLabel?.attributedText {
            let imageSize = image.size
            let titleSize = title.size()

            titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0.0, left: -imageSize.width, bottom: -(imageSize.height + padding), right: 0.0)
            imageEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: -(titleSize.height + padding), left: 0.0, bottom: 0.0, right: -titleSize.width)
        }

        super.layoutSubviews()
    }

}

Answer 5

If you are using custom fonts the calculation for the titleLabel size won't work properly, you should replace it with

let titleLabelSize = self.titleLabel?.text?.size(withAttributes: [NSAttributedStringKey.font: self.titleLabel!.font!])

Answer 6

Something like this inside UIButton subclass

public override func layoutSubviews() {
    super.layoutSubviews()

    imageEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(-10, 0, 0, 0)
    titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, -bounds.size.width/2 - 10, -30, 0)
}