Ios – UILabel – Wordwrap text

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Is there any way to have a label wordwrap text as needed? I have the line breaks set to word wrap and the label is tall enough for two lines, but it appears that it will only wrap on line breaks. Do I have to add line breaks to make it wrap properly? I just want it to wrap if it can't fit it in horizontally.

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If you set numberOfLines to 0 (and the label to word wrap), the label will automatically wrap and use as many of lines as needed.

If you're editing a UILabel in IB, you can enter multiple lines of text by pressing option+return to get a line break - return alone will finish editing.

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Css – wordwrap a very long string

This question has been asked here before:

Long story short:

As far as CSS solutions go you have: overflow: scroll; to force the element to show scrollbars and overflow:hidden; to just cut off any extra text. There is text-overflow:ellipsis; and word-wrap: break-word; but they are IE only (break-word is in the CSS3 draft, however, so it will be the solution to this 5 years from now).

Bottom line is that if it is very important for you to stop this from happening with wrapping the text over to the next line the only reasonable solution is to inject  (soft hyphen), <wbr> (word break tag), or  (zero-width space, same effect as  minus hyphen) in your string server side. If you don't mind Javascript, however, there is the hyphenator which seems to be pretty solid.

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I found that you can make use of the white-space CSS property:

white-space: normal;

And it will break the words as normal text.

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