Swift - UIButton with two lines of text
change line break to character wrap , select your button and in attribute inspector go to line break and change it to character wrap
I was looking for nearly the same topic, except that I don't need two different font sizes. In case someone is looking for a simple solution:
let button = UIButton()
button.titleLabel?.numberOfLines = 0
button.titleLabel?.lineBreakMode = .byWordWrapping
button.setTitle("Foo\nBar", for: .normal)
button.titleLabel?.textAlignment = .center
button.sizeToFit()
button.addTarget(self, action: #selector(rightBarButtonTapped), for: .allEvents)
navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(customView: button)
I have notice an issue in most of the solutions which is while making line break mode to "Character Wrap" the second line will be left aligned to the first line
To make all the lines centered. just change the title From Plain to Attributed and then you can make each line centered
There are two questions.
I was wondering if it is possible to create a UIButton with two lines of text
This is possible through using the storyboard or programmatically.
Storyboard:
Change the 'Line Break Mode' to Character Wrap or Word Wrap and use Alt/Option + Enter key to enter a new line in the UIButton's Title field.
Programmatically:
override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
super.viewDidAppear(animated)
btnTwoLine?.titleLabel?.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakMode.ByWordWrapping;
}
I need each line to have a different font size 1
The worst case is, you can use a custom UIButton
class and add two labels within it.
The better way is, make use of NSMutableAttributedString
. Note that,this can be achieved through only programmatically.
Swift 5:
@IBOutlet weak var btnTwoLine: UIButton?
override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
super.viewDidAppear(animated)
//applying the line break mode
textResponseButton?.titleLabel?.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakMode.byWordWrapping;
let buttonText: NSString = "hello\nthere"
//getting the range to separate the button title strings
let newlineRange: NSRange = buttonText.range(of: "\n")
//getting both substrings
var substring1 = ""
var substring2 = ""
if(newlineRange.location != NSNotFound) {
substring1 = buttonText.substring(to: newlineRange.location)
substring2 = buttonText.substring(from: newlineRange.location)
}
//assigning diffrent fonts to both substrings
let font1: UIFont = UIFont(name: "Arial", size: 17.0)!
let attributes1 = [NSMutableAttributedString.Key.font: font1]
let attrString1 = NSMutableAttributedString(string: substring1, attributes: attributes1)
let font2: UIFont = UIFont(name: "Arial", size: 11.0)!
let attributes2 = [NSMutableAttributedString.Key.font: font2]
let attrString2 = NSMutableAttributedString(string: substring2, attributes: attributes2)
//appending both attributed strings
attrString1.append(attrString2)
//assigning the resultant attributed strings to the button
textResponseButton?.setAttributedTitle(attrString1, for: [])
}
Older Swift
@IBOutlet weak var btnTwoLine: UIButton?
override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
super.viewDidAppear(animated)
//applying the line break mode
btnTwoLine?.titleLabel?.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakMode.ByWordWrapping;
var buttonText: NSString = "hello\nthere"
//getting the range to separate the button title strings
var newlineRange: NSRange = buttonText.rangeOfString("\n")
//getting both substrings
var substring1: NSString = ""
var substring2: NSString = ""
if(newlineRange.location != NSNotFound) {
substring1 = buttonText.substringToIndex(newlineRange.location)
substring2 = buttonText.substringFromIndex(newlineRange.location)
}
//assigning diffrent fonts to both substrings
let font:UIFont? = UIFont(name: "Arial", size: 17.0)
let attrString = NSMutableAttributedString(
string: substring1 as String,
attributes: NSDictionary(
object: font!,
forKey: NSFontAttributeName) as [NSObject : AnyObject])
let font1:UIFont? = UIFont(name: "Arial", size: 11.0)
let attrString1 = NSMutableAttributedString(
string: substring2 as String,
attributes: NSDictionary(
object: font1!,
forKey: NSFontAttributeName) as [NSObject : AnyObject])
//appending both attributed strings
attrString.appendAttributedString(attrString1)
//assigning the resultant attributed strings to the button
btnTwoLine?.setAttributedTitle(attrString, forState: UIControlState.Normal)
}
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