Add left right horizontal padding to UILabel

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I need to create a UILabel with a background color  and I d like to add some left right leading trailing horizontal padding  But every solution I ve found seems like a nasty hack  What is the  standard  way to achieve this from iOS 5 forward  A screenshot to illustrate my scenario

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UIView  bg     UIView alloc initWithFrame CGRectMake 0  0  self frame size width  70    bg backgroundColor    UIColor blackColor   UILabel  yourLabel     UILabel alloc initWithFrame CGRectMake 10  y  yourWidth  yourHeight     bg addSubview yourLabel     self addSubview bg

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add a space character too the string  that s poor man s padding     OR  I would go with a custom background view but if you don t want that  the space is the only other easy options I see      OR write a custom label  render the text via coretext

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If you need a more specific text alignment than what adding spaces to the left of the text provides  you can always add a second blank label of exactly how much of an indent you need   I ve got buttons with text aligned left with an indent of 10px and needed a label below to look in line  It gave the label with text and left alignment and put it at x 10 and then made a small second label of the same background color with a width   10  and lined it up next to the real label   Minimal code and looks good  Just makes AutoLayout a little more of a hassle to get everything working

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Subclass UILabel and override drawTextInRect  like this  -  void drawTextInRect  CGRect rect        UIEdgeInsets insets    0  10  0  0       return  super drawTextInRect UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect rect  insets

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One thing I did to overcome this issue was to use a UIButton instead of a UILabel  Then in the Attributes Inspector of the Interface Builder  I used the Edge for the Title as the padding  If you do not attach the button to an action  when clicked it will not get selected but it will still show the highlight     You can also do this programmatically with the following code     UIButton  mButton     UIButton alloc  init    mButton setTitleEdgeInsets UIEdgeInsetsMake top  left  bottom  right     mButton setTitle   Title  forState UIControlStateNormal    self view addSubView mButton     This approach gives the same result but sometimes it did not work for some reason that I did not investigate since if possible I use the Interface Builder   This is still a workaround but it works quite nicely if the highlight doesn t bother you  Hope it is useful

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If you want to add padding to UILabel but not want to subclass it you can put your label in a UIView and give paddings with autolayout like     Result

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Sometimes it s convenient to use UNICODE partial spaces to achieve alignment while prototyping  This can be handy in prototyping  proof-of-concept  or just to defer implementation of graphics algorithms    If you use UNICODE spaces for convenience  be aware that at least one of the UNICODE spaces has a size based on the font it is displayed from  specifically the actual space character itself  U 0020  ASCII 32   If you re using the default iOS system font in a UILabel  the default System font characteristics could change in a subsequent iOS release and suddenly introduce an unwanted misalignment by changing your app s precise spacing  This can and does happen  for example the  San Francisco  font replaced a previous iOS system font in an iOS release   UNICODE easy to specify in Swift  for example   let six per em space     u 2006     Alternatively  cut paste the space from an HTML page directly into the UILabel s text field in Interface Builder    Note  Attached pic is a screenshot  not HTML  so visit the linked page if you want to cut paste the space

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define PADDING 5   interface MyLabel   UILabel   end   implementation MyLabel  -  void drawTextInRect  CGRect rect       return  super drawTextInRect UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect rect  UIEdgeInsetsMake 0  PADDING  0  PADDING        -  CGRect textRectForBounds  CGRect bounds limitedToNumberOfLines  NSInteger numberOfLines       return CGRectInset  self attributedText boundingRectWithSize CGSizeMake 999  999                                                           options NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin                                                          context nil   -PADDING  0       end

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Installation with CocoaPods pod  PaddingLabel    1 2   Change your UILabel class to PaddingLabel     Specify padding

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The most important part is that you must override both intrinsicContentSize   and drawTextInRect   in order to account for AutoLayout  var contentInset  UIEdgeInsets    zero       didSet           setNeedsDisplay            override public var intrinsicContentSize  CGSize       let size   super intrinsicContentSize     return CGSize width  size width   contentInset left   contentInset right  height  size height   contentInset top   contentInset bottom     override public func drawText in rect  CGRect        super drawText in  UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect rect  contentInset

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For a full list of available solutions  see this answer  UILabel text margin    Try subclassing UILabel  like  Tommy Herbert suggests in the answer to  this question  1   Copied and pasted for your convenience   I solved this by subclassing UILabel and overriding drawTextInRect  like this   -  void drawTextInRect  CGRect rect       UIEdgeInsets insets    0  5  0  5        super drawTextInRect UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect rect  insets

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I had a couple of issues with the answers here  such as when you added in the padding  the width of the content was overflowing the box and that I wanted some corner radius  I solved this using the following subclass of UILabel    import  MyLabel h    define PADDING 8 0  define CORNER RADIUS 4 0   implementation MyLabel  -  void drawRect  CGRect rect    self layer masksToBounds   YES   self layer cornerRadius   CORNER RADIUS   UIEdgeInsets insets    0  PADDING  0  PADDING    return  super drawTextInRect UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect rect  insets      -  CGSize  intrinsicContentSize    CGSize intrinsicSuperViewContentSize    super intrinsicContentSize     intrinsicSuperViewContentSize width    PADDING   2    return intrinsicSuperViewContentSize       end   Hope that s helpful to someone  Note that if you wanted padding on the top and bottom  you would need to change this lines   UIEdgeInsets insets    0  PADDING  0  PADDING     To this   UIEdgeInsets insets    PADDING  PADDING  PADDING  PADDING     And add this line underneath the similar one for width   intrinsicSuperViewContentSize height    PADDING   2

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Swift 5  Create below class file and set it to your label as custom class name through storyboard  That s it   class PaddingLabel  UILabel        override func drawText in rect  CGRect            let insets   UIEdgeInsets top  0  left  8  bottom  0  right  0   CGRect inset by           super drawText in  rect inset by  insets

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