How can I bring a view in front of another view, in Swift?

Question

Below are how my views are organized in IB, top->bottom when the app is started.

The user can do something to make \"Category Table View Header\" temporarily expand

Answer 1

The method has been updated since swift 3

What has worked for me and hopefully for you is using :

YourView.bringSubview(toFront: yourelementA)
YourView.bringSubview(toFront: yourelementB)

Alternatively you could use the following to send the object that is in the front:

YourView.sendSubview(toBack: yourelementC)

I hope this helps

Answer 2

In Swift 5

To bring a subview to front

self.view.bringSubviewToFront(yourView)

To send a subview to back

self.view.sendSubviewToBack(yourView)

Answer 3

If you want to bring a subview to the front, you can use:

SWIFT 4 UPDATE

self.view.bringSubviewToFront(yourView)

SWIFT 3 UPDATE

self.view.bringSubview(toFront: yourView)

Send view to back:-

SWIFT 4 UPDATE

self.view.sendSubviewToBack(yourView)

SWIFT 3 UPDATE

self.view.sendSubview(toBack: yourView)

Answer 4

Swift 5.1+

UIKit draws views back to front, which means that views higher up the stack are drawn on top of those lower down. If you want to bring a subview to the front, there's a method just for you: bringSubviewToFront(). Here's an example:

parentView.bringSubviewToFront(childView)

This method can also be used to bring any subview to the front, even if you're not sure where it is:

childView.superview?.bringSubviewToFront(childView)

Answer 5

You can take a control over the order of subviews using methods: bringSubviewToFront and sendSubviewToBack from the superview.

You can access all the subviews contained by superview using self.view.subview array.