How to make UIButton s text alignment center Using IB

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I can t set the title of UIButton using IB as center  My title is multi line It is giving like this one   But I want like this one   I have given space in this but I don t want to do that  As it is not aligned exactly for some cases and I know there is a property of UILabel to set the alignment but I don t want to write a code for that   just want to set everything from IB   Thanks

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You can do this from storyboard  Select your button  Set Line Break  Word Wrap   Set your title  Plain  to  Attributed    Select  Center alignment   This part is important    Click     More  Button  And select line breaking mode to  Character Wrap

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For ios 8 and Swift  btn titleLabel textAlignment   NSTextAlignment Center   or  btn titleLabel textAlignment    Center

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For Swift 4   IBAction func myButton sender  AnyObject        sender titleLabel  textAlignment   NSTextAlignment center     sender setTitle  quot Some centered String quot   for UIControlState normal

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Use the line   myButton contentHorizontalAlignment   UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentCenter    This should center the content  horizontally    And if you want to set the text inside the label to the center as well  use    labelOne setTextAlignment UITextAlignmentCenter    If you want to use IB  I ve got a small example here which is linked in XCode 4 but should provide enough detail  also mind  on top of that properties screen it shows the property tab  You can find the same tabs in XCode 3 x

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For swift 4  xcode 9  myButton contentHorizontalAlignment    center

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Solution1  You can set the key path in the storyboard  Set the text to your multiline title e g  hello         multiline  You need to press         to move text to next line      Then add the key path  titleLabel textAlignment as Number and value 1  1 means NSTextAlignmentCenter titleLabel numberOfLines as Number and value 0  0 means any number of lines    This will not be reflected on IB Xcode  but will be in centre at run time  device simulator   If you want to see the changes on Xcode you need to do the following   remember you can skip these steps    Subclass the UIButton to make the button designable  import UIKit  IBDesignable class UIDesignableButton  UIButton     Assign this designable subclass to the buttons you re modifying       Iff done right  you will see the visual update in IB when the Designables state is  Up to date   which can take several seconds           Solution2  If you want to write the code  then do the long process  1 Create IBOutlet for button 2 Write code in viewDidLoad  btn titleLabel textAlignment    Center btn titleLabel numberOfLines   0       Solution3  In newer version of xcode  mine is xcode 6 1  we have property attributed title Select Attributed then select the text and press centre option below  P S  The text was not coming multiline for that I have to set the   btn titleLabel numberOfLines   0

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For UIButton you should use -   btn setContentHorizontalAlignment UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentCenter

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For those of you who are now using iOS 6 or higher  UITextAlignmentCenter has been deprecated   It is now NSTextAlignmentCenter  EXAMPLE  mylabel textAlignment   NSTextAlignmentCenter  Works perfectly

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This will make exactly what you were expecting   Objective-C     myButton titleLabel setTextAlignment UITextAlignmentCenter     For iOS 6 or higher it s     myButton titleLabel setTextAlignment  NSTextAlignmentCenter     as explained in tyler53 s answer  Swift   myButton titleLabel  textAlignment   NSTextAlignment Center   Swift 4 x and above  myButton titleLabel  textAlignment    center

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Assuming that btn refers to a UIButton  to change a multi-line caption to be centered horizontally  you can use the following statement in iOS 6 or later   self btn titleLabel textAlignment   NSTextAlignmentCenter

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Try Like this      yourButton contentVerticalAlignment   UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentCenter  yourButton contentHorizontalAlignment   UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentCenter

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UIButton will not support setTextAlignment  So You need to go with setContentHorizontalAlignment for button text alignment   For your reference    buttonName setContentHorizontalAlignment UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentCenter

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Actually you can do it in interface builder   You should set Title to  Attributed  and then choose center alignment

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UITextAlignmentCenter is deprecated in iOS6  Instead you can use this code   btn titleLabel textAlignment NSTextAlinmentCenter

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For Swift 3 0  btn titleLabel  textAlignment    center

[ios] How to make UIButton's text alignment center? Using IB

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