Question

I am trying to make the cells inside my UITableView adapt to the length of the text in them. If the text is too long, the cell grow a bit taller to fit it.

I am trying something like this:

cell.textLabel.numberOfLines = 0;
cell.textLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;

cell.textLabel.text = [[name stringByAppendingString:@": "] 
                               stringByAppendingString:comment];

But what happens is that the cell just tries to fit the text into same vertical amount of space, and does not get any taller.

Would anyone know what I am doing incorrectly here?

Thank you!

Answer 1

You need to use the cell height delegate. Take a look here: dynamic UITableViewCell height .

What you need to do is calculate the text height, and then set the cell’s height to that.
Specifically this method:

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    NSString *yourText = [someArray objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    CGSize constraint = CGSizeMake(320 /*cell width*/, CGFLOAT_MAX);
    CGSize size = [yourText sizeWithFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:FONT_SIZE] constrainedToSize:constraint lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeWordWrap];
    CGFloat height = MIN(size.height, 44.0f);

    return height;
}