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Asked: 2026-06-01T14:36:02+00:00

Background : I have been trying to display a sentence with Bold and Italic

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Background: I have been trying to display a sentence with Bold and Italic font as well as normal ones.

Question: How can I display something like this “Hello, my name is Byte“. Notice that Byte is both bold and italic, while other words remains normal.

I have tried: I think coreText should be able to do something along the line, I just have not been able to find the correct way to do it. I also used TTTAttributeLabel and cannot make it both bold and italic. I have Three20 loaded, just do not know which or what to use. Webview does not work with my background.

As a reply to Carles Estevadeordal:

UIWebView *webView = [[UIWebView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 360, 300, 40)];
[webView setBackgroundColor: [UIColor clearColor]];
[webView loadHTMLString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"<html><body style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Hello, my name is <b><i>Byte</b></i></body></html>"] baseURL:nil];
[self.view addSubview:webView];

This is exactly the code, I used. It displayed white background.

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  1. Editorial Team

    After a good night sleep, I found a way to do it using TTTAtributedlabel.
    Here is how: 

    TTTAttributedLabel *attLabel = [[TTTAttributedLabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(x, y, xx, yy)];
NSString *text = @"Hello, my name is Byte";

[attLabel setText:text afterInheritingLabelAttributesAndConfiguringWithBlock:^(NSMutableAttributedString *mutableAttributedString) {

    //font helvetica with bold and italic 
    UIFont *boldSystemFont = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica-BoldOblique" size:10];

    CTFontRef font = CTFontCreateWithName((__bridge CFStringRef)boldSystemFont.fontName, boldSystemFont.pointSize, NULL);

    NSRange boldRange = [[mutableAttributedString string] rangeOfString:@"Byte" options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch];
    [mutableAttributedString addAttribute:(NSString *)kCTFontAttributeName value:(__bridge id)font range:boldRange];

    CFRelease(font);

    return mutableAttributedString;
}];

    I still do not have a way to add 2 attributes (ie: bold and italic separately) into the same word/letter. But this does the trick.

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