Force UILabel to display 2 lines

Question

I have UILabel that display single line if it have space for it.

However, I need to force it always display 2 lines, even if there is enough space for display it in 1 line.

Robust way is to reduce right spacing constraint and check that condition on all of available devices, but maybe there is an easier way?

To be clear, I want this:

look like this:

As I mentioned, now labels binded to superview by constraints.

Blindworm

you need to fix width constant in AUTOLAYOUT to forcefully display two lines – Millimeter

@MikeAlter how exactly? – Blindworm

in autolayout set fix width and NSLineBreakByWordWrapping – Millimeter

You might be best splitting your string by spaces and using two labels if its for an address. – Weka

no it is not right way to assume there is only two worlds , you can split – Millimeter

label.numberoflines =0; label.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByWordWrapping ; remove constraints for textfield and set the frame size.width = 30. it automatically move to second line – Rosmunda

Answer 1

Step 1. Set number of lines to your label to 2.
Step 2. Set "Vertical hugging priority" to High (1000)
Step 3. Right click on your label and connect with icon at left and choose "Center Vertically".
Step 4. Right click on your label and connect with icon at left and set "Horizontal Spacing".
Step 5. If that text is static then do as suggested Igor, else, just replace @" " with @"\n" after assigning text to that label. E.g.

NSString *text = @"Какой-то Справочник"; 
self.myLabel.text = [text stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" " withString:@"\n"];

Or just set self.myLabel.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByWordWrapping;

Corneille

This is what op wants. – Sauers

Answer 2

In InterfaceBuilder settings of UILabel text press option+enter between "Справочник" and "МКБ".

Or set label.text = @"Справочник\nМКБ";.

And, of course, set yourLabel.numberOfLines = 2 or 0 in IB or code.

Stockjobber

Answer 3

Following code may helps you and you have to make label's height enough to cover two lines.

NSString *text = @"Какой-то Справочник";
self.Label.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByWordWrapping;
self.Label.numberOfLines = 2;

Unofficial

Answer 4

You need to set the numberOfLines.

yourLabel.numberOfLines = 2

Pelagia

This will not force two lines, but enable two lines. – Witte

Answer 5

you can either force the label to present a two line text with inserting a "\n" in the location you want in the string.

Or you can set a constant width to the label to force it to stay in a constant width always (this will cause the label to present the text in two rows, as long as the text is bigger then the width). Remember to set the allowed rows number to 2.

Fairway

Answer 6

If it is a fixed text then go for \n.

If it is a dynamic text then go for setting auto layouts with a fixed width and then numberoflines=0 and NSLineBreakByWordWrapping

Tache

Answer 7

For swift 4.2, you can try using the following:

label.numberOfLines = 2
label.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakMode.byWordWrapping

Incise