Programmatically scroll a UIScrollView to the top of a child UIView (subview) in Swift
Here's an extension I ended up writing.
Usage:
Called from my viewController, self.scrollView is an outlet to the UIScrollView and self.commentsHeader is a view within it, near the bottom:
self.scrollView.scrollToView(self.commentsHeader, animated: true)
Code:
You only need the scrollToView method, but leaving in scrollToBottom / scrollToTop methods too as you'll probably need those too, but feel free to delete them.
extension UIScrollView {
// Scroll to a specific view so that it's top is at the top our scrollview
func scrollToView(view:UIView, animated: Bool) {
if let origin = view.superview {
// Get the Y position of your child view
let childStartPoint = origin.convertPoint(view.frame.origin, toView: self)
// Scroll to a rectangle starting at the Y of your subview, with a height of the scrollview
self.scrollRectToVisible(CGRect(x:0, y:childStartPoint.y,width: 1,height: self.frame.height), animated: animated)
}
}
// Bonus: Scroll to top
func scrollToTop(animated: Bool) {
let topOffset = CGPoint(x: 0, y: -contentInset.top)
setContentOffset(topOffset, animated: animated)
}
// Bonus: Scroll to bottom
func scrollToBottom() {
let bottomOffset = CGPoint(x: 0, y: contentSize.height - bounds.size.height + contentInset.bottom)
if(bottomOffset.y > 0) {
setContentOffset(bottomOffset, animated: true)
}
}
}
scrollView.scrollRectToVisible(CGRect(x: x, y: y, width: 1, height:
1), animated: true)
or
scrollView.setContentOffset(CGPoint(x: x, y: y), animated: true)
Another way is
scrollView.contentOffset = CGPointMake(x,y);
and i do it with animated like this
[UIView animateWithDuration:2.0f delay:0 options:UIViewAnimationOptionCurveLinear animations:^{
scrollView.contentOffset = CGPointMake(x, y); }
completion:NULL];
scrollView.setContentOffset(CGPoint, animated: Bool)
Where the point's y coordinate is the y coordinate of the frame of the view you want to show relatively to the scrollView's content view.