How to add ellipses on a UITextView?

Question

I need to restrict number of lines in a UITextView to 2 and add ellipses to any overflowing text. How would I do that? For some implementation reasons I cannot use UILabel.

Expiration

Answer 1

You can do that by setting the properties of the textContainer like so:

textView.textContainer.maximumNumberOfLines = 2
textView.textContainer.lineBreakMode = .byTruncatingTail

Caret

If the size of the view is right textView.textContainer.lineBreakMode = .byTruncatingTail is enough. – Saury