How to set the title of UIButton as left alignment

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I need to display the email address from left side of a UIButton  but it is being positioned in the centre   Is there any way to set the alignment to the left side of a UIButton    This is my current code   UIButton  emailBtn     UIButton alloc  initWithFrame CGRectMake 5 30 250 height 15    emailBtn backgroundColor    UIColor clearColor    emailBtn setTitle obj2 customerEmail forState UIControlStateNormal   emailBtn titleLabel font    UIFont systemFontOfSize 12 5    emailBtn setTitleColor    UIColor alloc initWithRed 0 121 green 0 472 blue 0 823 alpha 1 autorelease  forState UIControlStateNormal    emailBtn addTarget self action  selector emailAction   forControlEvents UIControlEventTouchUpInside    elementView addSubview emailBtn    emailBtn release

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In Swift 3    button contentHorizontalAlignment    left

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Swift 4   button contentHorizontalAlignment    left button contentVerticalAlignment    top button contentEdgeInsets   UIEdgeInsets top  10  left  10  bottom  10  right  10

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Swift 5 1 self btnPro titleLabel  textAlignment    left

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Here is explained how to do it and why it works so  http   cocoathings blogspot com 2013 03 how-to-make-uibutton-text-left-or-right html

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UIButton  btn  btn contentVerticalAlignment   UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentTop  btn contentHorizontalAlignment   UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentLeft

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Set the contentHorizontalAlignment   emailBtn contentHorizontalAlignment    left    You might also want to adjust the content left inset otherwise the text will touch the left border   emailBtn contentEdgeInsets   UIEdgeInsetsMake 0  10  0  0       Swift 3 and up  emailBtn contentEdgeInsets   UIEdgeInsets top  0  left  10  bottom  0  right  0

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in xcode 8 2 1 in the interface builder it moves to

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For Swift 2 0   emailBtn contentHorizontalAlignment   UIControlContentHorizontalAlignment Left     This can help if any one needed

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Using emailBtn titleEdgeInsets is better than contentEdgeInsets  in case you don t want to change the whole content position inside the button

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Try  button semanticContentAttribute   UISemanticContentAttributeForceRightToLeft

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There is a small error in the code of  DyingCactus  Here is the correct solution to add an UILabel to an UIButton to align the button text to better control the button  title    NSString  myLabelText     Hello World   UIButton  myButton    UIButton buttonWithType UIButtonTypeCustom       position in the parent view and set the size of the button myButton frame   CGRectMake myX  myY  myWidth  myHeight     CGRect myButtonRect   myButton bounds  UILabel  myLabel     UILabel alloc  initWithFrame  myButtonRect      myLabel text   myLabelText  myLabel backgroundColor    UIColor clearColor   myLabel textColor    UIColor redColor    myLabel font    UIFont fontWithName   Helvetica Neue  size 14 0      myLabel textAlignment   UITextAlignmentLeft    myButton addSubview myLabel    myLabel release     Hope this helps      Al

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In Swift 5 0 and Xcode 10 2  You have two ways to approaches    1  Direct approach  btn contentHorizontalAlignment    left   2  SharedClass example  write once and use every ware   This is your shared class like this you access all components properties   import UIKit  class SharedClass  NSObject        static let sharedInstance   SharedClass        private override init                 UIButton extension extension UIButton       func btnProperties             contentHorizontalAlignment    left           In your ViewController call like this  button btnProperties    This is your button

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You can also use interface builder if you don t want to make the adjustments in code  Here I left align the text and also indent it some     Don t forget you can also align an image in the button too

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