Question

I am trying to give my UILabel dynamic height so that my layout of other labels looks correct in both landscape and portrait.

In portrait, my text wraps to the second line, in landscape it does not. So, when using sizeWithFont:constrainedToSize:lineBreakMode: I get the same height when rotating both ways, when I had assumed it would be a larger number when the text was 2 lines.

How can I get the height of my UILabel when it has two lines of text or more (portrait) and get the new height which is one line, when in landscape?

I guess I am not understanding how to get dynamic height working…

UILabel *itemTitle = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10.0f, top, screen.size.width - 20, 200.0f)];
itemTitle.text = self.newsAsset.title;
itemTitle.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = NO;
itemTitle.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth;
itemTitle.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:18.0];
itemTitle.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
itemTitle.shadowColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
itemTitle.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0, 1);
itemTitle.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
itemTitle.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;
itemTitle.numberOfLines = 0;
[itemTitle sizeToFit];

// Set the height
CGSize maximumLabelSize = CGSizeMake(300,9999);
CGSize titleSize = [itemTitle.text sizeWithFont:itemTitle.font constrainedToSize:maximumLabelSize lineBreakMode:itemTitle.lineBreakMode];

NSLog(@"Height: %.f  Width: %.f", titleSize.height, titleSize.width);

//Adjust the label the the new height
CGRect newFrame = itemTitle.frame;
newFrame.size.height = titleSize.height;
itemTitle.frame = newFrame;

// Add them!
[headerView addSubview:itemTitle];
[itemTitle release];

top += titleSize.height;

Answer 1

change the line where you set maximumLabelSize to

CGSize maximumLabelSize = CGSizeMake(headerView.bounds.size.width, CGFLOAT_MAX);