UITextView with hyperlink text
Set isEditable = false
or the text view will go into text-editing mode when user taps on it.
Swift 4 and later
let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "Just click here to register")
let url = URL(string: "https://www.apple.com")!
// Set the 'click here' substring to be the link
attributedString.setAttributes([.link: url], range: NSMakeRange(5, 10))
self.textView.attributedText = attributedString
self.textView.isUserInteractionEnabled = true
self.textView.isEditable = false
// Set how links should appear: blue and underlined
self.textView.linkTextAttributes = [
.foregroundColor: UIColor.blue,
.underlineStyle: NSUnderlineStyle.single.rawValue
]
If you want to use multiple hyperlinks you can use this alternative for Swift 5
extension UITextView {
func addHyperLinksToText(originalText: String, hyperLinks: [String: String]) {
let style = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
style.alignment = .left
let attributedOriginalText = NSMutableAttributedString(string: originalText)
for (hyperLink, urlString) in hyperLinks {
let linkRange = attributedOriginalText.mutableString.range(of: hyperLink)
let fullRange = NSRange(location: 0, length: attributedOriginalText.length)
attributedOriginalText.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.link, value: urlString, range: linkRange)
attributedOriginalText.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.paragraphStyle, value: style, range: fullRange)
attributedOriginalText.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.font, value: YourFont, range: fullRange)
}
self.linkTextAttributes = [
NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: YourColor,
NSAttributedString.Key.underlineStyle: NSUnderlineStyle.single.rawValue,
]
self.attributedText = attributedOriginalText
}
}
Usage:
yourTextView.addHyperLinksToText(originalText: "Testing hyperlinks here and there", hyperLinks: ["here": "someUrl1", "there": "someUrl2"])