Dynamic Height Issue for UITableView Cells Swift

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Dynamic text of variable length are being injected into tableview cell labels  In order for the tableview cells  heights to be dynamically sized  I have implemented in viewDidLoad     self tableView estimatedRowHeight   88 0 self tableView rowHeight   UITableViewAutomaticDimension   This works nicely for the cells that have yet to be scrolled to  as UITableViewAutomaticDimention is called upon scrolling to the cell   but not for the cells that are initially rendered onscreen upon loading the table with data   I have tried simply reloading the data  as suggested in many other resources    self tableView reloadData     in both viewDidAppear   and viewWillAppear   and it was to no avail  I am lost   does anyone know how to have xcode render the dynamic height for the cells loaded initially on screen    Please let me know  if there is a better alternate method

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Set automatic dimension for row height  amp  estimated row height and ensure following steps    IBOutlet weak var table  UITableView   override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad           Set automatic dimensions for row height        Swift 4 2 onwards     table rowHeight   UITableView automaticDimension     table estimatedRowHeight   UITableView automaticDimension          Swift 4 1 and below     table rowHeight   UITableViewAutomaticDimension     table estimatedRowHeight   UITableViewAutomaticDimension          UITableViewAutomaticDimension calculates height of label contents text func tableView   tableView  UITableView  heightForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  CGFloat          Swift 4 2 onwards     return UITableView automaticDimension         Swift 4 1 and below     return UITableViewAutomaticDimension     For Example  if you have a label in your UITableviewCell then    Set number of lines   0   amp  line break mode   truncate tail  Set all constraints  top  bottom  right left  with respect to its superview  cell container  Optional  Set minimum height for label  if you want minimum vertical area covered by label  even if there is no data    Here is sample label with dynamic height constraints

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Set proper constraint and update delegate methods as   func tableView   tableView  UITableView  heightForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  CGFloat       return UITableViewAutomaticDimension   func tableView   tableView  UITableView  estimatedHeightForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  CGFloat       return UITableViewAutomaticDimension     This will resolve dynamic cell height issue  IF not you need to check constraints

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For Swift 4 2   IBOutlet weak var tableVw  UITableView   override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad           Set self as tableView delegate     tableVw delegate   self      tableVw rowHeight   UITableView automaticDimension     tableVw estimatedRowHeight   UITableView automaticDimension       UITableViewDelegate Method  func tableView   tableView  UITableView  heightForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  CGFloat        return UITableView automaticDimension     Happy Coding

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Swift 5 Enjoy tablev rowHeight   100 tablev estimatedRowHeight   UITableView automaticDimension   func tableView   tableView  UITableView  cellForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  UITableViewCell       let cell   self tablev dequeueReusableCell withIdentifier   quot ConferenceRoomsCell quot   as  ConferenceRoomsCell     cell lblRoomName numberOfLines   0     cell lblRoomName lineBreakMode    byWordWrapping     cell lblRoomName text   arrNameOfRooms indexPath row      cell lblRoomName sizeToFit       return cell

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I was just inspired by your solution and tried another way   Please try to add tableView reloadData   to viewDidAppear     This works for me   I think the things behind scrolling is  the same  as reloadData  When you scroll the screen  it s like calling reloadData   when viewDidAppear    If this works  plz reply this answer so I could be sure of this solution

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For objective c this is one of my nice solution  it s worked for me   -  UITableViewCell   tableView  UITableView   tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath       cell textLabel text     nameArray objectAtIndex indexPath row       cell textLabel numberOfLines   0      cell textLabel lineBreakMode   NSLineBreakByWordWrapping     -  CGFloat tableView  UITableView   tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath       return UITableViewAutomaticDimension      We need to apply these 2 changes   1 cell textLabel numberOfLines   0    cell textLabel lineBreakMode   NSLineBreakByWordWrapping   2 return UITableViewAutomaticDimension

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self Itemtableview estimatedRowHeight   0  self Itemtableview estimatedSectionHeaderHeight   0  self Itemtableview estimatedSectionFooterHeight   0      self Itemtableview reloadData   self Itemtableview frame   CGRectMake  self Itemtableview frame origin x   self Itemtableview frame origin y   self Itemtableview frame size width self Itemtableview contentSize height   self Itemtableview contentInset bottom   self Itemtableview contentInset top

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Dynamic sizing cell of UITableView required 2 things    Setting the the right constraint of your view inside the table view cell  mostly it includes giving your view proper top   bottom and traling constraints  Calling these properties of TableView in viewDidLoad     tableView rowHeight   UITableViewAutomaticDimension   tableView estimatedRowHeight   140    This is a wonderfull tutorial on self-sizing  dynamic table view cells  written in swift 3

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Unfortunately  I am not sure what I was missing  The above methods don t work for me to get the xib cell s height or let the layoutifneeded  or UITableView automaticDimension to do the height calculation  I ve been searching and trying for 3 to 4 nights but could not find an answer   Some answers here or on another post did give me hints for the workaround though  It s a stupid method but it works  Just add all your cells into an Array  And then set the outlet of each of your height constraint in the xib storyboard  Finally  add them up in the heightForRowAt method  It s just straight forward if you are not familiar with the those APIs   Swift 4 2  CustomCell Swift   IBOutlet weak var textViewOneHeight  NSLayoutConstraint   IBOutlet weak var textViewTwoHeight  NSLayoutConstraint   IBOutlet weak var textViewThreeHeight  NSLayoutConstraint    IBOutlet weak var textViewFourHeight  NSLayoutConstraint   IBOutlet weak var textViewFiveHeight  NSLayoutConstraint    MyTableViewVC Swift      var myCustomCells  CustomCell           override func tableView   tableView  UITableView  cellForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  UITableViewCell       let cell   Bundle main loadNibNamed  CustomCell   owner  self  options  nil   first as  CustomCell      myCustomCells append cell  return cell      override func tableView   tableView  UITableView  heightForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  CGFloat       let totalHeight   myCustomCells indexPath row  textViewOneHeight constant   myCustomCells indexPath row  textViewTwoHeight constant    myCustomCells indexPath row  textViewThreeHeight constant   myCustomCells indexPath row  textViewFourHeight constant   myCustomCells indexPath row  textViewFiveHeight constant    return totalHeight   40   some magic number

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self tableView rowHeight   UITableViewAutomaticDimension self tableView estimatedRowHeight   88 0   And don t forget to add botton constraints for label

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To make autoresizing of UITableViewCell to work make sure you are doing these changes     In Storyboard your UITableView should only contain Dynamic Prototype Cells  It shouldn t use static cells  otherwise autoresizing won t work   In Storyboard your UITableViewCell s UILabel has configured for all 4 constraints that is top  bottom  leading and trailing constraints  In Storyboard your UITableViewCell s UILabel s number of lines should be 0 In your UIViewController s viewDidLoad function set below UITableView Properties    self tableView estimatedRowHeight    lt minimum cell height gt   self tableView rowHeight   UITableViewAutomaticDimension

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You should just set all constraints for TOP  BOTTOM and HEIGHT for each object on cell view views and remove exists middle Y position if have  Because where you didn t this  puts artifacts on another views

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This is simple when doing 2 things   setting the automatic height  tableView rowHeight   UITableView automaticDimension   creating all TableViewCells with FULL constraints from top to bottom  The last element MUST define some bottom spacing to end the cell   So the layout engine can compute the cell heigth and apply the value correctly

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In addition to what others have said    SET YOUR LABEL S CONSTRAINTS RELATIVE TO THE SUPERVIEW   So instead of placing your label s constraints relative to other things around it  constrain it to the table view cell s content view   Then  make sure your label s height is set to more than or equal 0  and the number of lines is set to 0    Then in ViewDidLoad add   tableView estimatedRowHeight   695  tableView rowHeight   UITableViewAutomaticDimension

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For Swift i checked this answer in iOS 9 0 and iOS 11 also  Xcode 9 3   func tableView tableView  UITableView  heightForRowAtIndexPath indexPath  NSIndexPath  - gt  CGFloat       return UITableViewAutomaticDimension    func tableView   tableView  UITableView  estimatedHeightForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  CGFloat       return UITableViewAutomaticDimension     Here you need to add top  bottom  right and left constraints

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Use this   tableView rowHeight   UITableViewAutomaticDimension tableView estimatedRowHeight   300   and don t use  heightForRowAtIndexPath delegate function  Also  in the storyboard don t set the height of the label that contains a large amount of data  Give it top  bottom  leading  trailing constraints

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For Swift 3 you can use the following   func tableView   tableView  UITableView  heightForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  CGFloat       return UITableViewAutomaticDimension    func tableView   tableView  UITableView  estimatedHeightForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  CGFloat       return UITableViewAutomaticDimension

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In my case - In storyboard i had a two labels as in image below   both labels was having desired width values been set before i made it equal  once you unselect  it will change to automatic  and as usual having below things should work like charm   1 rowHeight   UITableView automaticDimension  and 2 estimatedRowHeight   100 In my case   3 make sure label number of lines is zero

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Try This   func tableView tableView  UITableView  heightForRowAtIndexPath indexPath  NSIndexPath  - gt  CGFloat       return UITableViewAutomaticDimension     EDIT  func tableView tableView  UITableView  estimatedHeightForRowAtIndexPath indexPath  NSIndexPath  - gt  CGFloat       return UITableViewAutomaticDimension     Swift 4  func tableView   tableView  UITableView  estimatedHeightForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  CGFloat       return UITableViewAutomaticDimension     Swift 4 2  func tableView   tableView  UITableView  estimatedHeightForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  CGFloat       return UITableView automaticDimension     Define above Both Methods  It solves the problem   PS  Top and bottom constraints is required for this to work   Here is example

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I had also got this issue initially  I had resolved my issue from this code try avoiding the use of self tableView reloadData   instead of this code for dynamic height   self tableView reloadSections  NSIndexSet indexSetWithIndex 0  withRowAnimation UITableViewRowAnimationFade

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Try  override func viewWillAppear animated  Bool        self tableView layoutSubviews       I had the same problem and it works for me

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I use these  func tableView   tableView  UITableView  heightForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  CGFloat        return 100

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SWIFT 3  tableView rowHeight   UITableViewAutomaticDimension tableView estimatedRowHeight   160   AND    In storyBoard  You HAVE TO set TOP  amp  BOTTOM constraints for your Label  Nothing else

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This strange bug was solved through Interface Builder parameters as the other answers did not resolve the issue   All I did was make the default label size larger than the content potentially could be and have it reflected in the estimatedRowHeight height too  Previously  I set the default row height in Interface Builder to 88px and reflected it like so in my controller viewDidLoad     self tableView rowHeight   UITableViewAutomaticDimension self tableView estimatedRowHeight   88 0   But that didn t work  So I realized that content wouldn t ever become larger than maybe 100px  so I set the default cell height to 108px  larger than the potential content  and reflected it like so in the controller viewDidLoad     self tableView rowHeight   UITableViewAutomaticDimension self tableView estimatedRowHeight   108 0   This actually allowed the code to shrink down the initial labels to the correct size  In other words  it never expanded out to a larger size  but could always shrink down    Also  no additional self tableView reloadData   was needed in viewWillAppear     I know this does not cover highly variable content sizes  but this worked in my situation where the content had a maximum possible character count   Not sure if this is a bug in Swift or Interface Builder but it works like a charm  Give it a try

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When using a static UITableView  I set all the values in the UILabels and then call tableView reloadData

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