Question

I have a UITextView and I would like to only allow it to be scrollable horizontally only.

Basically when the UITextView word-wraps I want the user to have to scroll horizontally to be able to view the rest of the contents.

Answer 1

You can set the content size of the text view to the height of the view. Just make sure the width of the content extends past the width of the textView’s frame or else it won’t scroll.

// UITextView* myTextView: gets declared somewhere...

// The text view (subclass of a UIScrollView) won't go past its content size
[myTextView setContentSize:CGSizeMake(width, myTextView.frame.size.height)];

// Just in case, if you don't want your user bouncing the view up/down
[myTextView setAlwaysBounceVertical:NO];

I hope that’s what you were looking for.