Vertically align text to top within a UILabel

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I have a UILabel with space for two lines of text  Sometimes  when the text is too short  this text is displayed in the vertical center of the label   How do I vertically align the text to always be at the top of the UILabel

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Instead of using sizeToFit  you could manually change the label s height   CGSize size    descLabel text sizeWithFont descLabel font constrainedToSize CGSizeMake labelWidth  labelHeight    CGRect frame   descLabel frame  frame size height   size height       yourLabel setFrame frame     The size returned will be the best fit for the content of your label  If the label s height is fitted to its content  you wouldn t have problems with the content being positioned on the center of the label

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In Interface Builder   Set UILabel to size of biggest possible Text Set Lines to  0  in Attributes Inspector   In your code   Set the text of the label Call sizeToFit on your label   Code Snippet   self myLabel text     Short Title    self myLabel sizeToFit

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I know this is an old post but vertically aligning text is a HUGE problem  at least for me it is  and I figured that I should share this solution since I couldn t find one myself    Using drawRect is a little expensive in my opinion  The proper way to get a UILabel to vertically align is to not use a UILabel  Use a UITextView  multiline UITextField  and observe the content property like so   -  UITextView  textView       if   textView           UIEdgeInsets insets   UIEdgeInsetsMake 0  50  0  5           CGRect frame   CGRectMake 0 0f  0 0f  100 0f  100 0f            textView     UITextView alloc initWithFrame UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect frame  insets             textView delegate   self           textView scrollEnabled   YES           textView bounces   YES           textView backgroundColor    UIColor whiteColor             textView setUserInteractionEnabled NO             textView addObserver self forKeyPath   contentSize  options  NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew  context NULL             return  textView      - void observeValueForKeyPath  NSString   keyPath ofObject  id object change      NSDictionary   change context  void   context   UITextView  tv   object   CGFloat height    tv bounds  size height  CGFloat contentheight    ifdef   IPHONE 7 0     contentheight    tv sizeThatFits CGSizeMake tv frame size width  FLT MAX   height   else     contentheight    tv contentSize  height   endif      switch self verticalAlignment            case VerticalAlignmentBottom               CGFloat topCorrect     tv bounds  size height - contentheight               topCorrect    topCorrect  lt 0 0   0 0   topCorrect               tv contentOffset    CGPoint   x   0   y   -topCorrect                     break          case VerticalAlignmentMiddle               CGFloat topCorrect    height - contentheight    tv zoomScale   2 0              topCorrect     topCorrect  lt  0 0   0 0   topCorrect                tv contentOffset    CGPoint   x   0   y   -topCorrect                         break          case VerticalAlignmentTop               tv contentOffset    CGPoint   x   0   y   0                          break          default              break            Basically what s happening here is we set the class we re in as the observer  looking at the contentSize property with an option of NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew so every time the content changes  - void observeValueForKeyPath ofObject change context  will get called and then you can calculate an offset size to align the text appropriately    I can t take credit for this  the original idea came from here  But  this solution doesn t work on iOS7  After trolling around SO for a few hours  I found this  iOS 7 vertical alignment fix  The key line there is contentheight    tv sizeThatFits CGSizeMake tv frame size width  FLT MAX   height   For some reason in iOS 7  getting the contentSize height doesn t work but that fixes it  Neither of the two solutions worked on their own but after a little tinkering  I was able to synthesize together the above solution

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Create a new class   LabelTopAlign   h file   import  lt UIKit UIKit h gt     interface KwLabelTopAlign   UILabel        end    m file   import  KwLabelTopAlign h     implementation KwLabelTopAlign  -  void drawTextInRect  CGRect rect       int lineHeight      IglL  sizeWithFont self font constrainedToSize CGSizeMake rect size width  9999 0f   height      if rect size height  gt   lineHeight            int textHeight    self text sizeWithFont self font constrainedToSize CGSizeMake rect size width  rect size height   height          int yMax   textHeight          if  self numberOfLines  gt  0                yMax   MIN lineHeight self numberOfLines  yMax                           super drawTextInRect CGRectMake rect origin x  rect origin y  rect size width  yMax              end   Edit  Here s a simpler implementation that does the same    import  KwLabelTopAlign h    implementation KwLabelTopAlign  -  void drawTextInRect  CGRect rect       CGFloat height    self text sizeWithFont self font                             constrainedToSize rect size                                 lineBreakMode self lineBreakMode  height      if  self numberOfLines    0            height   MIN height  self font lineHeight   self numberOfLines             rect size height   MIN rect size height  height        super drawTextInRect rect       end

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Create a subclass of UILabel  Works like a charm      TopLeftLabel h   import  lt Foundation Foundation h gt    interface TopLeftLabel   UILabel        end     TopLeftLabel m   import  TopLeftLabel h    implementation TopLeftLabel  -  id initWithFrame  CGRect frame        return  super initWithFrame frame      -  CGRect textRectForBounds  CGRect bounds limitedToNumberOfLines  NSInteger numberOfLines        CGRect textRect    super textRectForBounds bounds limitedToNumberOfLines numberOfLines           textRect origin y   bounds origin y      return textRect     - void drawTextInRect  CGRect requestedRect        CGRect actualRect    self textRectForBounds requestedRect limitedToNumberOfLines self numberOfLines        super drawTextInRect actualRect       end   As discussed here

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Just in case it s of any help to anyone  I had the same problem but was able to solve the issue simply by switching from using UILabel to using UITextView  I appreciate this isn t for everyone because the functionality is a bit different   If you do switch to using UITextView  you can turn off all the Scroll View properties as well as User Interaction Enabled    This will force it to act more like a label

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Refering to the extension solution   for int i 1  i lt  newLinesToPad  i         self text    self text stringByAppendingString    n      should be replaced by   for int i 0  i lt newLinesToPad  i        self text    self text stringByAppendingString    n       Additional space is needed in every added newline  because iPhone UILabels  trailing carriage returns seems to be ignored     Similarly  alignBottom should be updated too with a     n    in place of   n     for cycle initialization must be replaced by  for int i 0     too    The following extension works for me      -- file  UILabel VerticalAlign h  pragma mark VerticalAlign  interface UILabel  VerticalAlign  -  void alignTop  -  void alignBottom   end     -- file  UILabel VerticalAlign m  implementation UILabel  VerticalAlign  -  void alignTop       CGSize fontSize    self text sizeWithFont self font       double finalHeight   fontSize height   self numberOfLines      double finalWidth   self frame size width       expected width of label     CGSize theStringSize    self text sizeWithFont self font constrainedToSize CGSizeMake finalWidth  finalHeight  lineBreakMode self lineBreakMode       int newLinesToPad    finalHeight  - theStringSize height    fontSize height      for int i 0  i lt newLinesToPad  i            self text    self text stringByAppendingString    n        -  void alignBottom       CGSize fontSize    self text sizeWithFont self font       double finalHeight   fontSize height   self numberOfLines      double finalWidth   self frame size width       expected width of label     CGSize theStringSize    self text sizeWithFont self font constrainedToSize CGSizeMake finalWidth  finalHeight  lineBreakMode self lineBreakMode       int newLinesToPad    finalHeight  - theStringSize height    fontSize height      for int i 0  i lt newLinesToPad  i            self text    NSString stringWithFormat     n    self text      end   Then call  yourLabel alignTop   or  yourLabel alignBottom   after each yourLabel text assignment

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This code helps you to make the text aligned to top and also to make the label height to be fixed the text content   instruction to use the below code  isHeightToChange by default it is true makes the height of label to same as text content automatically  isHeightToChange if it false make the text aligned to top with out decreasing the height of the label    import  DynamicHeightLable h    implementation DynamicHeightLable  synthesize isHeightToChange  -  id initWithFrame  CGRect frame        self    super initWithFrame frame       if  self                   Initialization code          self isHeightToChange FALSE   default            return self    -  void drawTextInRect  CGRect rect       if  isHeightToChange       CGSize maximumLabelSize   CGSizeMake self frame size width 2500        CGFloat height    self text sizeWithFont self font                            constrainedToSize maximumLabelSize                                lineBreakMode self lineBreakMode  height      if  self numberOfLines    0            height   MIN height  self font lineHeight   self numberOfLines             rect size height   MIN rect size height  height              super drawTextInRect rect      -  void  layoutSubviews        super layoutSubviews          if isHeightToChange        CGRect ltempFrame   self frame      CGSize maximumLabelSize   CGSizeMake self frame size width 2500        CGFloat height    self text sizeWithFont self font                            constrainedToSize maximumLabelSize                                lineBreakMode self lineBreakMode  height      if  self numberOfLines    0            height   MIN height  self font lineHeight   self numberOfLines             ltempFrame size height   MIN ltempFrame size height  height        ltempFrame size height ltempFrame size height      self frame ltempFrame              end

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No muss  no fuss   interface MFTopAlignedLabel   UILabel   end    implementation MFTopAlignedLabel  -  void drawTextInRect  CGRect  rect       NSAttributedString  attributedText     NSAttributedString alloc      initWithString self text attributes   NSFontAttributeName self font        rect size height    attributedText boundingRectWithSize rect size                                             options NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin                                             context nil  size height      if  self numberOfLines    0            rect size height   MIN rect size height  self numberOfLines   self font lineHeight              super drawTextInRect rect       end   No muss  no Objective-c  no fuss but Swift 3   class VerticalTopAlignLabel  UILabel        override func drawText in rect CGRect            guard let labelText   text else    return super drawText in  rect             let attributedText   NSAttributedString string  labelText  attributes   NSFontAttributeName  font           var newRect   rect         newRect size height   attributedText boundingRect with  rect size  options   usesLineFragmentOrigin  context  nil  size height          if numberOfLines    0               newRect size height   min newRect size height  CGFloat numberOfLines    font lineHeight                     super drawText in  newRect             Swift 4 2  class VerticalTopAlignLabel  UILabel        override func drawText in rect CGRect            guard let labelText   text else    return super drawText in  rect             let attributedText   NSAttributedString string  labelText  attributes   NSAttributedString Key font  font           var newRect   rect         newRect size height   attributedText boundingRect with  rect size  options   usesLineFragmentOrigin  context  nil  size height          if numberOfLines    0               newRect size height   min newRect size height  CGFloat numberOfLines    font lineHeight                     super drawText in  newRect

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Instead of UILabel you may use UITextField which has vertical alignment option   textField contentVerticalAlignment   UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentCenter  textField userInteractionEnabled   NO     Don t allow interaction

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There are two ways to fix this problem One is   mylabel setNumberOfLines 0    mylabel sizeToFit     But the second way is more reliable for this approach  i e    CGSize sizeToFit    label text sizeWithFont label font constrainedToSize maxSize lineBreakMode label lineBreakMode     mylabel setFrame CGRectMake mylabel frame origin x  mylabel frame origin y  sizeToFit width  sizeToFit height      entering   n  is not such a good thing but yes if you know the constraints and the size of the data going to be displayed  may be it work good but cannot be expandable if text is longer than size of the label  The Second way ultimately set the frame according to the size of the text going to be displayed

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Building on all the other solutions posted  I made a simple little UILabel subclass that will handle vertical alignment for you when setting its alignment property   This will also update the label on orientation changes as well  will constrain the height to the text  and keep the label s width at it s original size    h   interface VAlignLabel   UILabel  property  nonatomic  assign  WBZVerticalAlignment alignment   end    m   - void setAlignment  WBZVerticalAlignment alignment        alignment   alignment       CGSize s    self text sizeWithFont self font constrainedToSize CGSizeMake self frame size width  9999  lineBreakMode NSLineBreakByWordWrapping        switch   alignment                case wbzLabelAlignmentVerticallyTop              self frame   CGRectMake self frame origin x  self frame origin y  self frame size width  s height               break          case wbzLabelAlignmentVerticallyMiddle              self frame   CGRectMake self frame origin x  self frame origin y    self frame size height - s height  2  self frame size width  s height               break          case wbzLabelAlignmentVerticallyBottom              self frame   CGRectMake self frame origin x  self frame origin y    self frame size height - s height   self frame size width  s height               break          default              break           - void layoutSubviews       self setAlignment self alignment

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I riffed off dalewking s suggestion and added a UIEdgeInset to allow for an adjustable margin  nice work around   -  id init       if  self    super init             contentEdgeInsets   UIEdgeInsetsZero             return self     -  void layoutSubviews       CGRect localBounds   self bounds      localBounds   CGRectMake MAX 0  localBounds origin x   contentEdgeInsets left                                 MAX 0  localBounds origin y   contentEdgeInsets top                                 MIN localBounds size width  localBounds size width -  contentEdgeInsets left   contentEdgeInsets right                                  MIN localBounds size height  localBounds size height -  contentEdgeInsets top   contentEdgeInsets bottom          for  UIView  subview in self subviews            if   subview isKindOfClass  UILabel class                  UILabel  label    UILabel  subview              CGSize lineSize    label text sizeWithFont label font               CGSize sizeForText    label text sizeWithFont label font constrainedToSize localBounds size lineBreakMode label lineBreakMode                NSInteger numberOfLines   ceilf sizeForText height lineSize height                label numberOfLines   numberOfLines              label frame   CGRectMake MAX 0  contentEdgeInsets left   MAX 0  contentEdgeInsets top   localBounds size width  MIN localBounds size height  lineSize height   numberOfLines

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I wrote a util function to achieve this purpose  You can take a look       adjust the height of a multi-line label to make it align vertical with top    void  alignLabelWithTop  UILabel   label     CGSize maxSize   CGSizeMake label frame size width  999     label adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth   NO        get actual height   CGSize actualSize    label text sizeWithFont label font constrainedToSize maxSize lineBreakMode label lineBreakMode     CGRect rect   label frame    rect size height   actualSize height    label frame   rect       How to use   If lblHello is created by Interface builder  so I skip some UILabel attributes detail    lblHello text     Hello World  Hello World  Hello World  Hello World  Hello World  Hello World  Hello World  Hello World    lblHello numberOfLines   5   Utils alignLabelWithTop lblHello     I also wrote it on my blog as an article  http   fstoke me blog  p 2819

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I took a while to read the code  as well as the code in the introduced page  and found that they all try to modify the frame size of label  so that the default center vertical alignment would not appear   However  in some cases we do want the label to occupy all those spaces  even if the label does have so much text  e g  multiple rows with equal height    Here  I used an alternative way to solve it  by simply pad newlines to the end of label  pls note that I actually inherited the UILabel  but it is not necessary    CGSize fontSize    self text sizeWithFont self font    finalHeight   fontSize height   self numberOfLines  finalWidth   size width       expected width of label  CGSize theStringSize    self text sizeWithFont self font constrainedToSize CGSizeMake finalWidth  finalHeight  lineBreakMode self lineBreakMode    int newLinesToPad    finalHeight  - theStringSize height    fontSize height   for int i   0  i  lt  newLinesToPad  i          self text    self text stringByAppendingString    n

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There s no way to set the vertical-align on a UILabel  but you can get the same effect by changing the label s frame  I ve made my labels orange so you can see clearly what s happening   Here s the quick and easy way to do this        myLabel sizeToFit         If you have a label with longer text that will make more than one line  set numberOfLines to 0  zero here means an unlimited number of lines        myLabel numberOfLines   0       myLabel sizeToFit         Longer Version  I ll make my label in code so that you can see what s going on  You can set up most of this in Interface Builder too  My setup is a View-Based App with a background image I made in Photoshop to show margins  20 points   The label is an attractive orange color so you can see what s going on with the dimensions   -  void viewDidLoad        super viewDidLoad           20 point top and left margin  Sized to leave 20 pt at right      CGRect labelFrame   CGRectMake 20  20  280  150       UILabel  myLabel     UILabel alloc  initWithFrame labelFrame        myLabel setBackgroundColor  UIColor orangeColor         NSString  labelText     I am the very model of a modern Major-General  I ve information vegetable  animal  and mineral        myLabel setText labelText           Tell the label to use an unlimited number of lines      myLabel setNumberOfLines 0        myLabel sizeToFit         self view addSubview myLabel       Some limitations of using sizeToFit come into play with center- or right-aligned text  Here s what happens          myLabel textAlignment   NSTextAlignmentRight      myLabel textAlignment   NSTextAlignmentCenter        myLabel setNumberOfLines 0        myLabel sizeToFit       The label is still sized with a fixed top-left corner  You can save the original label s width in a variable and set it after sizeToFit  or give it a fixed width to counter these problems       myLabel textAlignment   NSTextAlignmentCenter        myLabel setNumberOfLines 0        myLabel sizeToFit        CGRect myFrame   myLabel frame         Resize the frame s width to 280  320 - margins         width could also be myOriginalLabelFrame size width     myFrame   CGRectMake myFrame origin x  myFrame origin y  280  myFrame size height       myLabel frame   myFrame        Note that sizeToFit will respect your initial label s minimum width  If you start with a label 100 wide and call sizeToFit on it  it will give you back a  possibly very tall  label with 100  or a little less  width  You might want to set your label to the minimum width you want before resizing     Some other things to note   Whether lineBreakMode is respected depends on how it s set  NSLineBreakByTruncatingTail  the default  is ignored after sizeToFit  as are the other two truncation modes  head and middle   NSLineBreakByClipping is also ignored  NSLineBreakByCharWrapping works as usual  The frame width is still narrowed to fit to the rightmost letter     Mark Amery gave a fix for NIBs and Storyboards using Auto Layout in the comments      If your label is included in a nib or storyboard as a subview of the view of a ViewController that uses autolayout  then putting your sizeToFit call into viewDidLoad won t work  because autolayout sizes and positions the subviews after viewDidLoad is called and will immediately undo the effects of your sizeToFit call  However  calling sizeToFit from within viewDidLayoutSubviews will work     My Original Answer  for posterity reference    This uses the NSString method sizeWithFont constrainedToSize lineBreakMode  to calculate the frame height needed to fit a string  then sets the origin and width   Resize the frame for the label using the text you want to insert  That way you can accommodate any number of lines   CGSize maximumSize   CGSizeMake 300  9999   NSString  dateString     The date today is January 1st  1999   UIFont  dateFont    UIFont fontWithName   Helvetica  size 14   CGSize dateStringSize    dateString sizeWithFont dateFont          constrainedToSize maximumSize          lineBreakMode self dateLabel lineBreakMode    CGRect dateFrame   CGRectMake 10  10  300  dateStringSize height    self dateLabel frame   dateFrame

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Subclass UILabel and constrain the drawing rectangle  like this   -  void drawTextInRect  CGRect rect       CGSize sizeThatFits    self sizeThatFits rect size       rect size height   MIN rect size height  sizeThatFits height         super drawTextInRect rect       I tried the solution involving newline padding and ran into incorrect behavior in some cases  In my experience  it s easier to constrain the drawing rect as above than mess with numberOfLines   P S  You can imagine easily supporting UIViewContentMode this way   -  void drawTextInRect  CGRect rect       CGSize sizeThatFits    self sizeThatFits rect size        if  self contentMode    UIViewContentModeTop            rect size height   MIN rect size height  sizeThatFits height             else if  self contentMode    UIViewContentModeBottom            rect origin y   MAX 0  rect size height - sizeThatFits height           rect size height   MIN rect size height  sizeThatFits height               super drawTextInRect rect

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Swift 2 0   Make constant enum values in a empty Swift file       AppRef swift  import UIKit import Foundation  enum UILabelTextPositions   String     case VERTICAL ALIGNMENT TOP    VerticalAlignmentTop   case VERTICAL ALIGNMENT MIDDLE    VerticalAlignmentMiddle   case VERTICAL ALIGNMENT BOTTOM    VerticalAlignmentBottom       Using UILabel Extension   Make a empty Swift class and name it  Add the following      AppExtensions swift  import Foundation import UIKit  extension UILabel    func makeLabelTextPosition  sampleLabel  UILabel   positionIdentifier   String  - gt  UILabel      let rect   sampleLabel  textRectForBounds bounds  limitedToNumberOfLines  0     switch positionIdentifier       case  VerticalAlignmentTop      sampleLabel  frame   CGRectMake bounds origin x 5  bounds origin y  rect size width  rect size height     break     case  VerticalAlignmentMiddle      sampleLabel  frame   CGRectMake bounds origin x 5 bounds origin y    bounds size height - rect size height    2      rect size width  rect size height      break     case  VerticalAlignmentBottom      sampleLabel  frame   CGRectMake bounds origin x 5  bounds origin y    bounds size height - rect size height  rect size width  rect size height      break     default     sampleLabel  frame   bounds     break        return sampleLabel          Usage     myMessageLabel makeLabelTextPosition messageLabel  positionIdentifier  UILabelTextPositions VERTICAL ALIGNMENT TOP rawValue

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Easiest approach using Storyboard  Embed Label in a StackView and set the following two attributes of StackView in the Attribute Inspector  1- Axis to Horizontal  2- Alignment to Top

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For Adaptive UI iOS8 or after    Vertical Alignment of UILabel is to be set from StoryBoard by Changing the properties  noOfLines 0  and      Constraints         Adjusting UILabel LefMargin  RightMargin and Top Margin Constraints    Change Content Compression Resistance Priority For Vertical 1000  So that   Vertical Horizontal          Edited   noOfLines 0   and the following constraints are enough to achieve the desired results

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Simple solution to this problem      Place a UIStackView bellow the label    Then use AutoLayout to set a vertical spacing of zero to the label and constraint the top to what was previously the bottom of the label  The label won t grow  the stackView will  What I like about this is that the stack view is non rendering  So it s not really wasting time rendering  Even though it makes AutoLayout calculations   You probably will need to play with ContentHugging and Resistance though but that s simple as well    Every now and then I google this problem and come back here  This time I had an ideia that I think is the easiest  and I don t think it s bad performance wise   I must say that I m just using AutoLayout and don t really want to bother calculating frames  That s just    yuck

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Set the new text   myLabel text     Some Text   Set the maximum number of lines to 0  automatic    myLabel numberOfLines   0  Set the frame of the label to the maximum size   myLabel frame   CGRectMake 20 20 200 800   Call sizeToFit to reduce the frame size so the contents just fit    myLabel sizeToFit     The labels frame is now just high and wide enough to fit your text  The top left should be unchanged  I have tested this only with the top left-aligned text  For other alignments  you might have to modify the frame afterward   Also  my label has word wrapping enabled

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An even quicker  and dirtier  way to accomplish this is by setting the UILabel s line break mode to  Clip  and adding a fixed amount of newlines   myLabel lineBreakMode   UILineBreakModeClip  myLabel text    displayString stringByAppendingString   n n n n      This solution won t work for everyone -- in particular  if you still want to show       at the end of your string if it exceeds the number of lines you re showing  you ll need to use one of the longer bits of code -- but for a lot of cases this ll get you what you need

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yourLabel baselineAdjustment   UIBaselineAdjustmentAlignCenters

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What I did in my app was to set the UILabel s line property to 0 as well as to create a bottom constraint of the UILabel and make sure it is being set to    0 as shown in the image below

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I ve used a lot of the methods above  and just want to add a quick-and-dirty approach I ve used   myLabel text    NSString stringWithFormat      n n n n n n n n n    My label text string      Make sure the number of newlines in the string will cause any text to fill the available vertical space  and set the UILabel to truncate any overflowing text   Because sometimes good enough is good enough

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I ve struggled with this one for a long time and I wanted to share my solution   This will give you a UILabel that will autoshrink text down to 0 5 scales and vertically center the text  These options are also available in Storyboard IB    labelObject setMinimumScaleFactor 0 5    labelObject setBaselineAdjustment UIBaselineAdjustmentAlignCenters

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For those of you with custom table cells attempting to fix this issue  add this to your custom table cell class   Swift 2 2   override func layoutSubviews         labelName sizeToFit       This solved my issue

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SwiftUI  In SwiftUI  all views are usually sizeToFit their content  but if you explicitly use frame modifier  you can use alignment parameter of the frame   Text  Text        background Color red       frame width  100  height  200  alignment   top    Also if you use any kind of Stack to arrange your views  all of them have a parameter similar to frame  called alignment   ZStack alignment   top        Color red     Text  Text            background Color red

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In swift   let myLabel   UILabel   To make your text of your Label to fit to screen and it s on the top  myLabel sizeToFit    To make your font of label to fit to the width of screen or specific width size   myLabel adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth   YES  and some textAlignment for label    myLabel textAlignment    center   myLabel textAlignment    left  myLabel textAlignment    right  myLabel textAlignment    Natural  myLabel textAlignment    Justified

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As of March 7  2018   Swift 4  let maxFrameHeight   75  myLabel   UILabel   myLabel frame   CGRect x  9  y  9  width  126  height  maxFrameHeight  myLabel text    my labels text displayed  myLabel numberOfLines   0  myLabel sizeToFit   let newFrameHeight   myLabel frame size height let safeNewHeight   min newFrameHeight  maxFrameHeight   myLabel frame   CGRect x  9  y  9  width  126  height  safeNewHeight    This will get the desired outcome  and it will make sure the new height of the UILabel doesn t pass a certain maximum height you desire for this label

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Use textRect forBounds limitedToNumberOfLines    class TopAlignedLabel  UILabel     override func drawText in rect  CGRect        let textRect   super textRect forBounds  bounds  limitedToNumberOfLines  numberOfLines      super drawText in  textRect

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You can use TTTAttributedLabel  it supports vertical alignment    property  nonatomic  TTTAttributedLabel  label   lt     gt     view s or viewController s init method  label verticalAlignment   TTTAttributedLabelVerticalAlignmentTop

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Try this    Too manual but works perfect for me    labelName setText   This is just a demo     NSMutableString  yourString1    This is just a demo        breaking string labelName lineBreakMode UILineBreakModeTailTruncation  labelName numberOfLines   3    CGSize maximumLabelSize1   CGSizeMake 276 37      Your Maximum text size  CGSize expectedLabelSize1    yourString1 sizeWithFont labelName font                                     constrainedToSize maximumLabelSize1                                         lineBreakMode labelName lineBreakMode     labelName setText yourString1     CGRect newFrame1   labelName frame  if  expectedLabelSize1 height gt  10        newFrame1 size height   expectedLabelSize1 height     labelName frame   newFrame1

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I wanted to have a label which was able to have multi-lines  a minimum font size  and centred both horizontally and vertically in it s parent view  I added my label programmatically to my view   -  void  customInit          Setup label     self label     UILabel alloc  initWithFrame CGRectMake 0  0  self frame size width  self frame size height        self label numberOfLines   0      self label lineBreakMode   UILineBreakModeWordWrap      self label textAlignment   UITextAlignmentCenter          Add the label as a subview     self autoresizesSubviews   YES       self addSubview self label       And then when I wanted to change the text of my label     -  void  updateDisplay  NSString   text       if    text isEqualToString self label text                Calculate the font size to use  save to label s font          CGSize textConstrainedSize   CGSizeMake self frame size width  INT MAX           self label font    UIFont systemFontOfSize TICKER FONT SIZE           CGSize textSize    text sizeWithFont self label font constrainedToSize textConstrainedSize           while  textSize height  gt  self frame size height  amp  amp  self label font pointSize  gt  TICKER MINIMUM FONT SIZE                self label font    UIFont systemFontOfSize self label font pointSize-1               textSize    ticker blurb sizeWithFont self label font constrainedToSize textConstrainedSize                        In cases where the frame is still too large  when we re exceeding minimum font size              use the views size         if  textSize height  gt  self frame size height                textSize    text sizeWithFont self label font constrainedToSize self frame size                         Draw          self label frame   CGRectMake 0  self frame size height 2 - textSize height 2  self frame size width  textSize height           self label text   text             self setNeedsDisplay       Hope that helps someone

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Like the answer above  but it wasn t quite right  or easy to slap into code so I cleaned it up a bit   Add this extension either to it s own  h and  m file or just paste right above the implementation you intend to use it    pragma mark VerticalAlign  interface UILabel  VerticalAlign  -  void alignTop  -  void alignBottom   end    implementation UILabel  VerticalAlign  -  void alignTop       CGSize fontSize    self text sizeWithFont self font        double finalHeight   fontSize height   self numberOfLines      double finalWidth   self frame size width       expected width of label       CGSize theStringSize    self text sizeWithFont self font constrainedToSize CGSizeMake finalWidth  finalHeight  lineBreakMode self lineBreakMode         int newLinesToPad    finalHeight  - theStringSize height    fontSize height       for int i 0  i lt   newLinesToPad  i                  self text    self text stringByAppendingString     n             -  void alignBottom       CGSize fontSize    self text sizeWithFont self font        double finalHeight   fontSize height   self numberOfLines      double finalWidth   self frame size width       expected width of label       CGSize theStringSize    self text sizeWithFont self font constrainedToSize CGSizeMake finalWidth  finalHeight  lineBreakMode self lineBreakMode         int newLinesToPad    finalHeight  - theStringSize height    fontSize height       for int i 0  i lt  newLinesToPad  i                  self text    NSString stringWithFormat     n    self text            end   And then to use  put your text into the label  and then call the appropriate method to align it    myLabel alignTop     or   myLabel alignBottom

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FXLabel  on github  does this out of the box by setting label contentMode to UIViewContentModeTop  This component is not made by me  but it is a component I use frequently and has tons of features  and seems to work well

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I ve found the answers on this question are now a bit out-of-date  so adding this for the auto layout fans out there   Auto layout makes this issue pretty trivial  Assuming we re adding the label to UIView  view  the following code will accomplish this   UILabel  label     UILabel alloc  initWithFrame CGRectZero    label setText   Some text here     label setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints NO    view addSubview label     view addConstraints  NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat   H   label    options 0 metrics nil views     label   label      view addConstraints  NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat   V   label   options 0 metrics nil views     label   label       The label s height will be calculated automatically  using it s intrinsicContentSize  and the label will be positioned edge-to-edge horizontally  at the top of the view

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As long as you are not doing any complex task  you can use UITextView instead of UILabels   Disable the scroll   If you want the text to be displayed completely just user sizeToFit and sizeThatFits  methods

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If you are using autolayout  set the vertical contentHuggingPriority to 1000  either in code or IB  In IB you may then have to remove a height constraint by setting it s priority to 1 and then deleting it

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Here s a solution in Swift 4 0   func viewDidLoad          super viewDidLoad           20 point top and left margin  Sized to leave 20 pt at right      let labelFrame   CGRect x  20  y  20  width  280  height  150      let myLabel   UILabel frame  labelFrame      myLabel backgroundColor   UIColor orange      let labelText    I am the very model of a modern Major-General       I ve information vegetable  animal  and mineral      myLabel text   labelText         Tell the label to use an unlimited number of lines     myLabel numberOfLines   0     myLabel sizeToFit        view addSubview myLabel     add label

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If creating your own custom view is an option  you could do something like this   -  void drawRect  CGRect rect       CGRect bounds   self bounds       self textColor set        self text drawInRect bounds                  withFont self font             lineBreakMode UILineBreakModeTailTruncation                 alignment self textAlignment

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For Swift 3      IBDesignable class TopAlignedLabel  UILabel       override func drawText in rect  CGRect            if let stringText   text               let stringTextAsNSString   stringText as NSString             let labelStringSize   stringTextAsNSString boundingRect with  CGSize width  self frame width height  CGFloat greatestFiniteMagnitude                                                                               options  NSStringDrawingOptions usesLineFragmentOrigin                                                                              attributes   NSFontAttributeName  font                                                                               context  nil  size             super drawText in  CGRect x 0 y  0 width  self frame width  height ceil labelStringSize height              else               super drawText in  rect                      override func prepareForInterfaceBuilder             super prepareForInterfaceBuilder           layer borderWidth   1         layer borderColor   UIColor black cgColor

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This is an old solution  use the autolayout on iOS    6  My solution    Split lines by myself  ignoring label wrap settings  Draw lines by myself  ignoring label alignment      interface UITopAlignedLabel   UILabel   end     implementation UITopAlignedLabel   pragma mark Instance methods  -  NSArray  splitTextToLines  NSUInteger maxLines       float width   self frame size width       NSArray  words    self text componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet  NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet        NSMutableArray  lines    NSMutableArray array        NSMutableString  buffer    NSMutableString string           NSMutableString  currentLine    NSMutableString string        for  NSString  word in words            if   buffer length   gt  0                 buffer appendString                            buffer appendString word            if  maxLines  gt  0     lines count     maxLines - 1                 currentLine setString buffer               continue                     float bufferWidth    buffer sizeWithFont self font  width           if  bufferWidth  lt  width                 currentLine setString buffer                     else                lines addObject  NSString stringWithString currentLine                  buffer setString word                currentLine setString buffer                        if   currentLine length   gt  0             lines addObject  NSString stringWithString currentLine               return lines     -  void drawRect  CGRect rect       if   self text length     0            return             CGContextRef context   UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext         CGContextSetFillColorWithColor context  self textColor CGColor       CGContextSetShadowWithColor context  self shadowOffset  0 0f  self shadowColor CGColor        NSArray  lines    self splitTextToLines self numberOfLines       NSUInteger numLines    lines count        CGSize size   self frame size      CGPoint origin   CGPointMake 0 0f  0 0f        for  NSUInteger i   0  i  lt  numLines  i              NSString  line    lines objectAtIndex i            if  i    numLines - 1                 line drawAtPoint origin forWidth size width withFont self font lineBreakMode UILineBreakModeTailTruncation                                 else                line drawAtPoint origin forWidth size width withFont self font lineBreakMode UILineBreakModeClip                      origin y    self font lineHeight           if  origin y  gt   size height                return                      end

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In UILabel vertically text alignment is not possible  But  you can dynamically change the height of the label using sizeWithFont  method of NSString  and just set its x and y as you want   You can use UITextField  It supports the contentVerticalAlignment peoperty as it is a subclass of UIControl  You have to set its userInteractionEnabled to NO to prevent user from typing text on it

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for anyone reading this because the text inside your label is not vertically centered  keep in mind that some font types are not designed equally  for example  if you create a label with zapfino size 16  you will see the text is not perfectly centered vertically   however  working with helvetica will vertically center your text

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It can be done with more flexibility setting a height constraint to the label in Interface Builder  binding it to the code with an IBOutlet and changing that height to show the text in a concrete vertical position  Example for center and bottom alignment   labelHeightConstraint constant   centerAlignment   30   15 layoutIfNeeded

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I took the suggestions here and created a view which can wrap a UILabel and will size it and set the number of lines so that it is top aligned  Simply put a UILabel as a subview    interface TopAlignedLabelContainer   UIView       end   implementation TopAlignedLabelContainer  -  void layoutSubviews       CGRect bounds   self bounds       for  UILabel  label in  self subviews                 if   label isKindOfClass  UILabel class                          CGSize fontSize    label text sizeWithFont label font                CGSize textSize    label text sizeWithFont label font                                      constrainedToSize bounds size                                          lineBreakMode label lineBreakMode                label numberOfLines   textSize height   fontSize height               label frame   CGRectMake 0  0  textSize width                   fontSize height   label numberOfLines                       end

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I was working on that particular problem as well  so I ve taken the ideas by D S  and nevan king and basically combined them into a subclass that implements a vertical alignment property  which also allows you to change the alignment more than just once  It borrows the UIControlContentVerticalAlignment type and also supports UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentFill   From what I ve seen  numberOfLines seems to be useless when it comes to vertical alignment  so in this subclass it is always set to 0 when applying vertical alignment  Also  you still have to set lineBreakMode yourself in case you want a multi-line text label   There it is  QALabel on GitHub

[ios] Vertically align text to top within a UILabel

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