iOS multiline label in Interface builder

Question

How can I make a multiline UILabel in interface builder for iOS? I tried the UITextView but it didn't quite suit my needs.

How can I add multiline (text) in label?

Answer 1

You can use numberOfLines property which defines maximum number of lines a label can have. By default, it's 1. Setting it to 0 means the label will have unlimited lines.

You can do it in code:

textLabel.numberOfLines = 5 // for example

Or in Interface Builder:

Answer 2

Hit Control+Enter to add a line in UILabel in Interface Builder/Storyboard.

Answer 3

Thanks AppleVijay!

Also to call sizeToFit, like this:

label.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;
label.numberOfLines = 0;
[label sizeToFit];

The height will be automatically computed.

Answer 4

set width of label as u needed small then use IB to set line breaks to word wrap

or use with code like this

I found a solution.

One just has to add the following code:

textLabel.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByWordWrapping;
textLabel.numberOfLines = 0;

Answer 5

Set number of lines zero for dynamic text information, it will be useful when your text are varying.

Programatically (Swift 3)

var label = UILabel()
let stringValue = "iOS\nmultiline\nlabel\nin\nInterface\nbuilder"
label.text = stringValue
label.numberOfLines = 0 // Set 0, if number of lines not specified.
label.lineBreakMode = .byTruncatingTail // or .byWrappingWord
label.minimumScaleFactor = 0.8 . // It is not required but nice to have a minimum scale factor to fit text into label frame

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Using Inetrface Builder

Note: It is not required to set Minimum Font Scale, but nice to have a minimum scale factor to fit text into label frame.

Answer 6

In iOS7 (Xcode5) you shold set the lines of UILabel to 0 for unlimited multiple input in storyboard.
The most important is to set the height of the UILabel can hold the lines of input you are going to set.

Answer 7

Number of lines is visible in IB with Plain UILabels set lines field as 0 . It will create multiple lines as per the provided space to the label.

Answer 8

textLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;

textLabel.numberOfLines = 0;

CGSize size =  [[[arrNewsFeed objectAtIndex:row] objectForKey:@"c"]  sizeWithFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:14.0]  constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(188, CGFLOAT_MAX)
                                                                     lineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByTruncatingTail];

textLabel.frame = (CGRect){.origin = cell.lblNewsDescription.frame.origin, .size = size};

Answer 9

If you set the numberOfLines property equal to 0, the label will automatically adjust to the required number of lines of the given text.

Answer 10

For X-Code 7.2

1. -- Select UILabel

2. -- Attributes inspector

3. -- Text - Select Attributed

After this you can see some more attribute you can add into you label, in which you can also find number of Lines. Which make your label multiline.