How do you show multiple lines of text in a UILabel using Swift? [duplicate]

Question

Is it possible to show multiple lines of text in a UILabel in Swift?

I currently use a UITextView which has an internal scroll and I would like to avoid a scroll and display statically. I’ve tried placing a number of constraints to achieve this but it doesn’t prevent an internal scroll on the UITextView.

Inhesion

set label.numberOfLines = 0 to have unlimited amount of rows and textField.isScrollingEnabled = false to inactivate the scroll in the text field – Marco

Possibly related: #24135405 – Disjoined

Answer 1

I think you mean UITextView.

Change your text to a UILabel and hook it up as an IBOutlet and then add the following code:

myLabel.numberOfLines = 0

Example:

@IBOutlet weak var myLabel: UILabel!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    myLabel.text = "This is where all of your text goes..."
    myLabel.numberOfLines = 0

}

Set your constraints as normal and this should display the UILabel on multiple lines dependent on how much text you have displayed.

Brutish

Thank you this makes much more sense – Inhesion

Answer 2

You can simply do the following :

myLabel.numberOfLine = 2

You can also specify 0 to allow your label to use the necessary number of line to display all the content.

Chantal

Answer 3

You can do that Using StoryBoard also:

Make the lines to 0 or any amount of lines you want

Dierdre