Question

I am new to iPhone,

How do I vertically align my text in the UILabel?

Here is my Code snippet,

    UILabel *lbl=[[UILabel alloc]init];
    lbl.frame=CGRectMake(10,10,100,100);
    lbl.backgroundColor=[UIColor clearColor];
    lbl.font=[UIFont systemFontOfSize:13];
    lbl.text=@"123456";
    [scrollVw addSubview:lbl];

text displayed is in the format of 123456 but i want text should be display vertically like,

6
5
4
3
2
1

Any help will be appriciated.

Answer 1

Its impossible to align the text in UILabel vertically. But, you can dynamically change the height of the label using sizeWithFont: method of NSString, and just set its x and y as you want.

As an alternative you can use UITextField. It supports the contentVerticalAlignment peoperty as it is a subclass of UIControl. You have to set its userInteractionEnabled to NO to prevent user from typing text on it.

EDIT 1

Well instead of a UILabel , Make a UITableView like :-

TableActivityLevel=[[UITableView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(224, 203, 27, 0) style:UITableViewStylePlain];
TableActivityLevel.delegate=self;
TableActivityLevel.dataSource=self;
TableActivityLevel.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight; 
TableActivityLevel.rowHeight = 17;
TableActivityLevel.backgroundColor=[UIColor clearColor];    
TableActivityLevel.layer.borderColor = [[UIColor clearColor]CGColor];
TableActivityLevel.separatorStyle = UITableViewCellSeparatorStyleNone;

EDIT 2 Found the method using UILabels too !! 🙂 Check this out….

UILabel *label1 = [[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 10.0, 100.0)];
[label1 setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
[label1 setNumberOfLines:0];
[label1 setCenter:self.view.center];
[label1 setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica" size:12.0]];
[label1 setTextColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
[label1 setTextAlignment:UITextAlignmentCenter];
[label1 setText:@"1 2 3 4 5 6"];
[self.view addSubview:label1];